Galatea

Summary

Galatea is a moon of Neptune^[1]. Galatea draws 100 Wikipedia views per month (moon_of_neptune category, ranking #7 of 15).^[2]

Key Facts

• Galatea is credited with the discovery of Stephen P. Synnott^[3].
• Galatea is credited with the discovery of Voyager 2^[4].
• Galatea's image is recorded as Galatea moon.jpg^[5].
• Galatea's instance of is recorded as moon of Neptune^[6].
• Galatea's instance of is recorded as shepherd moon^[7].
• Galatea is named after Galatea^[8].
• Galatea's Commons category is recorded as Galatea (moon)^[9].
• Galatea's parent astronomical body is recorded as Neptune^[10].
• Galatea's provisional designation is recorded as S/1989 N 4^[11].
• Galatea's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1989-07-28T00:00:00Z^[12].
• Galatea's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02rfk3^[13].
• Galatea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Galatea (moon)^[14].
• Galatea's Commons gallery is recorded as Galatea (moon)^[15].
• Galatea's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.00004'}^[16].
• Galatea's apparent magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+21.9'}^[17].
• Galatea's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Galatea-astronomy^[18].
• Galatea's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.052'}^[19].
• Galatea's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14754979', 'amount': '+3.7'}^[20].
• Galatea's radius is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+88'}^[21].
• Galatea's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+0.42874431'}^[22].
• Galatea's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+61593'}^[23].
• Galatea's NAIF ID is recorded as 806^[24].
• Galatea's albedo is recorded as {'amount': '+0.08'}^[25].
• Galatea's Hrvatska enciklopedija ID is recorded as 68452^[26].
• Galatea's Bing entity ID is recorded as df762967-ba24-8a95-e9e5-7864ec0357e9^[27].

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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

Galatea draws 100 Wikipedia views per month (moon_of_neptune category, ranking #7 of 15).^[2] Galatea has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] Galatea is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]