Upper Limit of the Gaseous CH4 Abundance on Triton

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Jun 1981

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The Messenger, No.24, P. 26, 1981

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Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, has been known for a long time to be able to retain an atmosphere of heavy gases, due to its mass and temperature. Several attempts for detecting the gaseous CH4 molecule in Triton's spectrum have been inconclusive (Cochran and Cochran, 1977; Cruikshank et al., 1979). In contrast, Benner et al. (1978) reported the identification of a CH4 gaseous absorption at 8900 A, as weil as Cruikshank and Silvaggio (1979) in the near-infrared; from the second study, an abundance of 7 m-Am (meter-Amagat)* was derived.

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