A new study by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) shows that one of the months of Neptun, Nereid, could be the only survivor of one of the most violent "monthly cataclysms ever held in the Solar System – a phenomenon triggered by the capture of the former dwarf planet Triton in the gravitational field of the gas giant.
A new study by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) shows that one of the months of Neptun, Nereid, could be the only survivor of one of the most violent "monthly cataclysms ever held in the Solar System – a phenomenon triggered by the capture of the former dwarf planet Triton in the gravitational field of the gas giant.