Editing Triton

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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Triton
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:TritonOrbiter2016.jpg|240px]]
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|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Triton in Orbiter 2016 with D3D9 client'''
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
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|Name||align="right"|Triton
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|width="30%"|Reference body||align="right" width="30%"|Neptune
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Planetary mean orbits
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|width="30%"|Epoch||align="right" width="50%"|1989.6466 
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|width="30%"|Semimajor axis (a)||align="right" width="50%"|357 800 000 m
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|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.0
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|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|156.8602026° <br> (2.737727 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|172.4316484° <br> (3.0095 radian)
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|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|156.4747739° <br> (2.731 radian)
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|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|61.25491788° <br> (1.0691 radian)
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!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
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|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|1353400 m
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|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|2.14×10<sup>22</sup> kg
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|width="30%"|Note||align="right" width="30%"|*Elements given are from Triton.cfg (triton.zip)
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Triton is the largest moon of [[Neptune]] and the seventh largest moon in the [[Solar System]].It the only moon of Neptune that has reached hydrostatic equilibrium and it has a thin atmosphere. Triton's orbit is retrograde.

Triton was discovered by [[w:William Lassell|William Lassell]] on 10 October 1846, just 17 days after Neptune was discovered. 

== Triton in Orbiter ==
Triton was introduced to Orbiter with the add-on uranus-neptune-moons.zip in October 2002. In April 2003 Rolf Keibel released triton.zip with two different atmospheres as options.

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|colspan="8"|<center>'''Orbiter versions and add-ons which include Io'''</center>
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!Add-on!!Source!!Version!!Author!!Type!!Release Date!!Compatibility!!Wiki article
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|[https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=triton.zip&Author=&CatID=root Triton]||AVSIM||||Rolf Keibel||Scenery||25 April 2003||||
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/orbiter-2003-p2.5433/ Orbiter 2003-P2]||O-F Resources||031217||martins||Orbiter Download||17 December 2003||Orbiter 2003-P2||
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|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/orbiter-2003-p1.5434/ Orbiter 2003-P1]||O-F Resources||031105||martins||Orbiter Download||5 November 2003||Orbiter 2003-P1|
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|[https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=uranus-neptune-moons.zip&Author=&CatID=root Uranus / Neptune Moons Addon]||AVSIM||||Robert Stettner (Foxtrot)||Scenery||12 October 2002||||
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== See also ==
[[w:Triton (moon)|Triton]] at [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]]

<gallery>
Triton021012.jpg|<center>Triton in uranus-neptune-moons.zip</center>
Triton-orbiter2002p3.jpg|<center>Triton in Orbiter 2002P3</center>
Triton-Tritonzip.jpg|<center>Triton in Orbiter 2002P3 from ''triton.zip''</center>
Triton-Orbiter2003P2.jpg|<center>Triton in Orbiter 2003P2</center>
Triton-usgs23-with-frame.jpg|<center>Triton as seen by [[w:Voyager 2|Voyager 2]]</center>
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