Neptune · natural satellite
Galatea
- Mean diameter
- 158 km
- Mean orbital distance
- 62,000 km from centre
- Orbital period
- 0.429 Earth days
Compared with our Moon
One diameter scale. Circle shapes compare volume-equivalent diameters; irregular moons are not spheres.
Orbit & discovery
- Surface gravity
- 0.03 m/s²
- Discovery
- 1989
- Discoverer / team
- Voyager Science Team
- Provisional designation
- S/1989 N4
- JPL satellite ID
- 806
- Orbital eccentricity
- 0.001
- Inclination
- 0 degrees
Inclination reference: equatorial. Mean-element epoch: 2000-01-01.5 TDB · NEP098.
Diameters use volume-equivalent mean radii, including for irregular bodies. Mean orbital elements describe an orbit; they are not live positions. Missing physical measurements remain unavailable.
Physical measurements & uncertainties
- Mean radius · km
- 79.00 ±12.00 [1]
- GM · km³/s²
- 0.18990 ±0.76278 [NEP097]
- Density · g/cm³
- 1.3777 ±5.5695 [*]
Missions in the Neptune system · 1 records
1 launches · 0 linked events
These records cover the planetary system. A system mission did not necessarily visit this moon. Dedicated targets are marked separately; programme events include the journey and briefings. Launch outcomes do not establish arrival, landing success or present spacecraft operation.
No dedicated-target flight is recorded for this moon.
1 records from the complete 9,386‑record production catalogue.
Sources & measurements
- JPL · IAU-recognized satellite discoveries ↗
- JPL · physical parameters and uncertainties ↗
- JPL · mean orbital elements ↗
- NASA NSSDCA · Jovian sidereal orbital periods ↗
- NASA · planetary exploration history ↗
- NASA · Voyager encounters ↗
- NASA · Galileo ↗
- NASA · Juno ↗
- NASA · Cassini–Huygens ↗
- NASA · New Horizons ↗
- ESA · Juice targets ↗
- NASA · Europa Clipper ↗
- NASA · Dragonfly ↗
- JAXA · MMX ↗