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Even before Voyager 2 had sent back the first images of Triton in 1989, it was commonly accepted that Neptune’s moon and Pluto were analogs, most likely sharing a similar origin but had somehow parted during the chaos of the early Solar System. The close observations of both objects have confirmed this interpretation. In this chapter, we will review both worlds, which are listed in different categories (one as a moon and the other as a dwarf planet) purely because of their location.
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The only other place in our Solar System where nitrogen had been discovered on a moon was in Titan’s atmosphere , in much smaller quantities than what was being measured on Triton.
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Henin, B. (2018). Triton and Pluto. In: Exploring the Ocean Worlds of Our Solar System. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93476-1_10
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