00:00On this day in space.
00:04On May 1st, 1949, Neptune's moon Nereid was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper.
00:09This was the second of 14 moons discovered at Neptune.
00:13It was also the last one to be discovered with certainty before NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune in 1989.
00:19Astronomers suspected they had observed a third moon through a telescope before,
00:23but it wasn't actually seen until the Voyager 2 mission.
00:26Kuiper spotted Nereid using an 82-inch reflector telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Texas.
00:32He decided to name it after the sea nymphs in Greek mythology.
00:35Neptune was the Roman god of the sea, so Kuiper was sticking with this nautical theme when he chose this name.
00:41Despite years of astronomical observations, Nereid's exact shape is still a bit of a mystery.
00:47Voyager 2 did get some pictures of Nereid, but they were taken from nearly 3 million miles away and were pretty pixelated.
00:54However, spectroscopic observations have shown that it has a neutral color and may have water ice on its surface.
01:00And that's what happened on this day in space.
01:03To see who it was, take a little explorer.
01:04It was an Englishist forecast for the Galaxy of this month.
01:09What was the name?
01:10I was asked for a couple more questions about maybe one or two of your friends who were from here to be on the planet.
01:12But, what are you doing to see the light of the sea?
01:13I will keep you in the middle of the universe.
01:14How does it look like the sea?
01:15I'm not sure!
01:16You're going to see the light of the sea that may be in that, but they are trying to make it.
01:17The sun made it look like the moonlight.
01:23The sky is there for the time.
01:24The Sky is there.
01:25The sky is there.
01:26The sky is in the sky that.
01:27The sky is there.
01:28The sky is there.
01:29The sky is outside.
01:30The sky is there.
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