About Triton
Triton is an anomaly moon.
It orbits about 30.07 AU from the Sun — roughly 30.1 times Earth's distance.
Anomaly moon 86 EP
Triton
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Score breakdown
· 6 badgesAnomaly 120 pts → Mythic
- Orbits backwards around its planet +20
- Subsurface ocean +18
- Volcanically active +18
- Moon +16
- Has a proper name +8
- Tidally locked +6
Total score 86
34 more points to reach Mythic.
Badges
- Moon · +16
- Has a proper name · +8
- Subsurface ocean · +18
- Volcanically active · +18
- Tidally locked · +6
- Orbits backwards around its planet · +20
Trivia
Hard to believe
- Round under its own weight. Big enough that its own gravity has pulled it into a sphere — most of its neighbours are potato-shaped rubble.
What it actually is
- Its address. It orbits about 30.07 AU from the Sun — roughly 30.1 times Earth's distance.
- Almost a perfect circle. Its orbit is very nearly circular — rounder than Earth's, so it gets the same amount of sunlight all year round.
- Around its planet. It circles its planet at a distance of 354.8 thousand km, about the same as the Earth–Moon gap.
Sense of scale
- Against Earth. It is only 21% of Earth's width — you could pack about 104 of it inside our planet.
- Against our Moon. Smaller than our own Moon — about 78% of its width.
- Ground to cover. Its whole surface adds up to about 23 million km² — about 15% of Earth's dry land.
- Walk around it. Walking right round its equator, eight hours a day, would take about 7 months.
Properties
- color
- #cdbfb0
- diameter km
- 2706.8
- name
- Triton
- named
- yes
- radius km
- 1353.4
- retrograde orbit
- yes
- subsurface ocean
- yes
- tidally locked
- yes
- volcanic
- yes
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Triton is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Triton is an anomaly moon
Triton scores 86 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 34 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Moon, Has a proper name, Subsurface ocean, Volcanically active, Tidally locked and Orbits backwards around its planet — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.