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...copes like Magellan enabled Sheppard to probe deeper than previous Uranian irregular moon surveys.<ref name="Carnegie-20240223"/> [[File:Irregular moon orbits a vs. i.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|Irregular satellites of Jupiter (red), Saturn (green), Uranus (magenta) and Neptune (blue; inclu ...

'''S/2002 N 5''' is a prograde [[irregular moon|irregular satellite]] of [[Neptune]]. It was discovered on 14 August 2002 by [[Matthe ...002 by Matthew Holman and collaborators, during their search for Neptunian irregular moons using the 4.0-m [[Víctor M. Blanco Telescope]] at [[Cerro Tololo Obse ...

...ike Subaru enabled Sheppard's team to probe deeper than previous Neptunian irregular moon surveys.<ref name="Carnegie-20240223"/> ...ame="Carnegie-20240223"/> S/2021 N 1 and [[S/2002 N 5]], another Neptunian irregular moon discovered by Sheppard's team, were both confirmed and announced by th ...

...the hypothesis that Makemake's excess thermal emission largely comes from satellites with dark surfaces.<ref name="Hromakina2019"/>{{rp|page=6}} === Additional satellites of Makemake === ...

==Satellites== ...h a [[low Earth orbit|low-Earth]], [[polar orbit]] since [[geostationary]] satellites view the same point throughout their lifetime. ...

...ring|ring systems]], [[moonlet]]s, [[minor-planet moon]]s and [[artificial satellites]] any of which may themselves have satellite systems of their own (see [[Su ...onsidered satellite systems, although some have been orbited by artificial satellites originating from Earth. ...

...on E. Davies]], Thomas A. Hauge, et al.: Control Networks for the Galilean Satellites: November 1979 R-2532-JPL/NASA</ref> and [[Triton (moon)|Triton]], the larg ...Mercury]] and most of the satellites are in this category. For many of the satellites, it is assumed that the rotation rate is equal to the mean [[orbital period ...

...ost applications, Keplerian motion approximates the motions of planets and satellites to relatively high degrees of accuracy and is used extensively in [[astrono ...t impact on accuracy. This effect is quite noticeable for artificial Earth satellites, especially those in low orbits. ...

...cases. Even the two-body problem becomes insoluble if one of the bodies is irregular in shape.<ref name="roy">{{cite book |last = Roy |first = A.E. | title = Or The primary non-gravitational force acting on satellites in low Earth orbit is atmospheric drag.<ref name="SMAD"/> Drag will act in ...

...aterial appearing to spill out of Ryugu Planitia's interior plain onto the irregular terrain to the south. Also unique to Ryugu Planitia is its elongated pit cl | title = Cryovolcanism on the icy satellites ...

...eriodic corrections to the tables of eclipses of Io to take account of its irregular orbital motion: periodically resetting the clock, as it were. The obvious t ...<ref name="Rømer1677"/> that the unexplained "irregularities" in the other satellites were larger than the effect of the speed of light. The dispute had somethin ...

...first1=Dario |last2=Gómez |first2=Pablo |date=2022-12-28 |title=Geodesy of irregular small bodies via neural density fields |journal=Communications Engineering Note that for satellites, orbits are decoupled from the rotation of the Earth so the orbital period ...

| Irregular crystals || Clusters of very small crystals || Polycrystals growing in vary hexagonal or irregular in shape ...

*artificial satellites *artificial satellites such as [[LAGEOS]] (1976) and the [[Global Positioning System]] (initial op ...

...ting coastal processes in different coasts with complex shorelines such as irregular wave deformation from offshore to onshore, nearshore currents induced by ra ...uations where significant [[refraction]] occurs, or where the coastline is irregular, the one-dimensional method falls short, necessitating the use of a field m ...

...rn hemisphere, but extends across the equator. Much of it has a surface of irregular polygons separated by troughs, interpreted as [[convection cells]] in the r ...ntribute to the formation of subsurface oceans on other outer Solar System satellites and trans-Neptunian objects.<ref name="Kamata2019"/> ...

...Dimorphos was in a tumbling rotation state, the moon will be subjected to irregular [[tidal force]]s by Didymos before it will eventually return to a [[tidal l ...aotically]] [[Precession|tumbling]] rotation that will subject the moon to irregular [[tidal force]]s by Didymos before it will eventually return to a [[tidal l ...

| satellites = 1 ([[Weywot]]) ...s [[optical depth]] ranges from 0.004 to 0.7.<ref name="Pereira2023"/> The irregular width of the Q1R ring resembles [[Saturn]]'s frequently-[[perturbation (ast ...

...[Simplicius of Cilicia|Simplicius]] says that Heraclides proposed that the irregular movements of the planets can be explained if the Earth moves while the Sun ...=http://solarviews.com/eng/galdisc.htm|title=The Discovery of the Galilean Satellites|website=solarviews.com|access-date=2019-06-07}}</ref> However, after a week ...

...n yield approximate values for those of the other planets, their [[natural satellites|moons]], and the [[Sun]], previously known only in terms of their relative [[File:Edinburgh Arthur Seat dsc06165.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left|alt=An irregular grass-covered mountain near sunset.|[[Arthur's Seat]], the site of Henry Ja ...