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	Thalassa	Neptune
Discovered By	R. Terrile, Voyager 2	Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams, Johann Galle
Date of Discovery	1989	23 September 1846
Average Orbit Distance	50,074 km	4,498,396,441 km
Perihelion/Perigee (closest)	50,064 km	4,459,753,056 km
Aphelion/Apogee (farthest)	50,084 km	4,537,039,826 km
Equatorial Radius	41.0 km	24,622 km
Equatorial Circumference	257.6 km	154,704.6 km
Volume	288,696 km3	62,525,703,987,421 km3
Mass	374,667,108,274,298,000 kg	102,410,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
Density	1.3 g/cm3	1.638 g/cm3
Surface Area	21,124.07 km2	7,618,272,763 km2
Equatorial Surface Gravity	0.015 m/s2	11.15 m/s2
Escape Velocity	126 km/h	84,816 km/h
Mean Orbit Velocity	42,152.2 km/h	19,566 km/h
Orbit Eccentricity	0.0002	0.00859048
Orbit Inclination to Ecliptic	0.135 degrees	1.77 degrees
Orbit Circumference	314,624.22 km	28,263,736,967 km