Despina

moon of Neptune
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Despina
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Despina

Summary

Despina is a moon of Neptune[1]. Despina draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (moon_of_neptune category, ranking #10 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • Despina is credited with the discovery of Stephen P. Synnott[3].
  • Despina is credited with the discovery of Voyager 2[4].
  • Despina's image is recorded as Despina.jpg[5].
  • Despina's instance of is recorded as moon of Neptune[6].
  • Despoina is named after Despina[7].
  • Despina's Commons category is recorded as Despina[8].
  • Despina's parent astronomical body is recorded as Neptune[9].
  • Despina's provisional designation is recorded as S/1989 N 3[10].
  • Despina's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1989-07-28T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Despina's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02rfhh[12].
  • Despina's Commons gallery is recorded as Despina[13].
  • Despina's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0002'}[14].
  • Despina's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+1.1'}[15].
  • Despina's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Despina[16].
  • Despina's different from is recorded as Despina[17].
  • Despina's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.216'}[18].
  • Despina's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14754979', 'amount': '+2.1'}[19].
  • Despina's radius is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+75'}[20].
  • Despina's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+0.33465551'}[21].
  • Despina's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+52526'}[22].
  • Despina's volume as quantity is recorded as {'unit': 'Q4243638', 'amount': '+1800000'}[23].
  • Despina's NAIF ID is recorded as 805[24].
  • Despina's albedo is recorded as {'amount': '+0.09'}[25].
  • Despina's surface gravity is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1051665', 'amount': '+0.026'}[26].
  • Despina's Hrvatska enciklopedija ID is recorded as 68421[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Credited discoveries include Stephen P. Synnott[3], an astronomer[28], b. 1946[29], of United States[30] and Voyager 2[4], a flyby probe[31].

Why It Matters

Despina draws 64 Wikipedia views per month (moon_of_neptune category, ranking #10 of 15).[2] Despina has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] Despina is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . NASA FACTS. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . NASA FACTS. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . NASA FACTS. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . naif.jpl.nasa.gov. naif.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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