Despina

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Fifth moon of Neptune.

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Equatorial radius: 74 km
Orbital period: 0.334655 days
Mean orbital velocity: 11.41 km/sec
Orbital eccentricity: 0.0001
Orbital inclination: 0.07 degrees
Visual geometric albedo: 0.06

Only 27,700 kilometers from Neptune's clouds, Despina orbits every 8 hours. Its diameter is about 150 kilometers. It is irregularly shaped and shows no sign of any geological modification. Despina circles the planet in the same direction as Neptune rotates, and remains close to Neptune's equatorial plane.