The planet Neptune once again has an amazing discovery that shows us that in the solar system everything is not as it seems at first sight, and the researchers were surprised by the discovery. It seems that two of the moons that the planet Neptune has, Naiad and Thalassa, do not have such a regular orbit around the cosmic body, researchers saying that they "avoid" each other when they get close to each other .
The planet Neptune has practically two moons that have unusual orbits, and NASA managed to detect this somewhere during November of last year, and since then they have been watching carefully what is happening. The Naiad moon has an orbit inclined by 5 degrees in relation to that of the Thalassa moon, and this means that half of the time it orbits the planet Neptune is above its "sister", while in the other half it is all the time below it.
Planet Neptune: The AMAZING Discovery, What NASA Observed
The planet Neptune is orbited by these moons with a distance of only 1850 kilometers between each one's orbits, but they fit perfectly so that they never collide in their "dance" around the planet. The Naiad moon takes 7 hours to make a complete orbit, while Thalassa takes 7 and a half hours, and as the planet Neptune is small in size, it's easy to see why NASA could figure out pretty quickly why the orbits were formed like this.
"See how the strange orbits of Neptune's inner moons, Naiad and Thalassa, allow them to avoid each other as they race around the planet. Researchers call it the "dance of avoidance." An observer sitting on Thalassa would see the Naiad on an orbit that varies wildly in a zig-zag pattern, passing twice above and then twice below. This up, up, down, down pattern repeats every time Naiad wins four turns on Thalassa. This repeating pattern is called resonance.”
The planet Neptune had this discovery made by analyzing data collected over a period of 35 years, so NASA did not reach a conclusion of this kind without looking in detail at what is happening. The planet Neptune has 14 moons that revolve around it, but these two are the only ones that have such irregular orbits, and the only ones that have attracted NASA's attention by the way they walk three times a day around the planet, without stopping.
The planet Neptune has here a first discovery made by those from NASA, and it is surprising that it comes so many decades after they received the first information from there.
