Icy clues to Triton's origins

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Dec 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991natur.354..431m&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 354, Dec. 12, 1991, p. 431.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Astronomical Spectroscopy, Infrared Spectroscopy, Infrared Telescopes, Satellite Surfaces, Solar System, Triton, Absorption Spectra, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide

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The significance of the detection of frozen CO and CO2 on Triton is discussed. The detection is important primarily because it may represent direct cosmochemical proof that Triton was originally captured from solar orbit. While CO is supposed to have been abundant in the solar nebula from which the solar system emerged, it is not supposed to have been a major constituent of the satellite-building nebulae that once existed around the giant planets. Thus, Triton may once have followed its own independent orbit about the sun, only to be captured by Neptune.

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