What is on the other side of the sun. Gloria is Earth's twin planet on the other side of the Sun.

The science

Astronomers have long predicted existence of hidden planets at the edge of the solar system. Some of them were so eager to "leave their mark" in space that they made erroneous assumptions.

Does it exist planet Nibiru and will it collide with the earth? Is there in solar system more planets beyond Pluto? What Planet X? Whether there is a Neptune has a twin?

Learn about the most mysterious planets of our system which caused a lot of controversy in the scientific world.

1) Neighbor Uranus: the hunt for an invisible planet in the solar system

Prediction: In the early 19th century, several astronomers independently noticed that the planet Uranus deviates somewhat from its route around the sun. This could be related to gravitational attraction some other object nearby.

In 1843 a British astronomer John Cooch Adams predicted the existence of another planet, which could influence the orbit of neighboring Uranus, attracting it with its gravitational field.

After 2 years, another researcher - Urbain Le Verrier– independently of Adams made calculations of the characteristics of this missing planet. His descriptions miraculously matched those of Adams. Soon astronomers around the world began to hunt for the invisible planet.

Reality: In 1846 mysterious planet interfering with Uranus has indeed been discovered. Moreover, its location differed only by 1 degree from the place indicated by Le Verrieri 12 degrees- from the place calculated by Adams.

After much discussion, Le Verrier named the planet Neptune. As it turned out, Neptune was seen yet Galileo in 1612, but the astronomer then thought it was a star.

2) Planet X: Mysterious Dwarf Planet

Prediction: After the discovery of Neptune, astronomers thought again: they suggested that beyond its orbit there must be another planet. At the beginning of the 20th century, an American astronomer Percival Lowell took up this issue seriously. He named an unknown object Planet X.

Lowell suggested that the existence of Planet X explains the apparent inaccuracies in the movement of the gas giants, especially Uranus and Neptune. This invisible ninth planet its gravitational field should prevent them from moving along the correct trajectory. Planet X has been hunted by many astronomers.

Reality: In 1930, they finally managed to prove the existence of Planet X, which was named Pluto. Pluto was officially considered 9th planet until 2006, after which it was moved to the category dwarf planets.

In 1978, it turned out that Pluto is too small to influence the movement of the gas giants with its gravity, so the idea of Planet X resurfaced. Astronomers have begun to hunt for 10th planet in the solar system.

The existence of Planet X was never confirmed when, in the early 1990s, spacecraft "Voyager 1" made the necessary calculations. It was proved that the violation of the orbits of the gas giants was due not to an invisible planet, but to the fact that The mass of Neptune was not originally calculated correctly.

3) Doomsday Herald Nibiru: The Big Mystery of Space

Prediction: In 1995, a certain Nancy Leader, calling herself a "contactee", predicted the end of the world, which should happen due to Earth's collision with a giant invisible planet, which roams the solar system without a definite orbit.

The leader also claimed to receive messages from aliens through a special chip implanted in her brain. The hypothesis of the existence of Nibiru was also expressed by American writer Zecharia Sitchin. In 1976 he mistranslated ancient Sumerian texts.

According to him, they said that people actually did not appear on Earth at all, but on the distant planet Nibiru and arrived on Earth when this mysterious planet collided with ours in the distant past.

Currently great amount people believe that Nibiru will soon reappear from the depths solar system and will definitely collide with the Earth.

Reality: Any sane astronomer will confirm that Nibiru is fiction. There are no scientific evidence the existence of another huge planet in the solar system, in addition to those already known. Spacecraft that travel through our system did not notice anything suspicious.

Physical laws in space can't confirm the existence of a planet whose mass would be so huge and whose orbit would be unstable. Theoretically, this is impossible.

4) Planet Tyukhe interferes with comets

Prediction: In 1999 and recalculated in 2011, two astronomers from University of Louisiana in the city of Lafayette attracted public attention. They argued that at the edge of the solar system there is planet 4 times the size of Jupiter. They named her Tyukhe.

John Mathis and Daniel Whitmire suggested that in the Oort cloud, the region where comets are born, there is a giant planet. The existence of this planet explains the unusual orbital trajectories of new comets that originate in this distant cloud.

Many doomsday theorists believe that Tyche and Nibiru are the same object and that one day it will hit the earth turning us all to dust.

Reality: scientific world treats the idea of Tyche's existence with skepticism. No one can prove or disprove this theory yet.. The explanation of the existence of Tyche only on the basis of deviations in the trajectory of the comets of the Oort cloud is too doubtful. Scientists claim that in order to prove the presence of such a huge object, lack of statistics.

5) Neptune's Twin Is The Most Mysterious Planet At The Edge Of The Solar System

Prediction: In March 2012, the astronomer Rodney Gomez from National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro presented computer models, which allegedly prove the existence at the edge of the solar system planets the size of Neptune.

His models show that the existence of this planet explains mysterious very elongated orbits of some objects in a region outside the orbit of Neptune, as well as the dwarf planet Sedna.

Reality: Exceptional claims require exceptional evidence. Gomez's assumption is still highly questionable. Astronomers are sure that before talking about the presence of a giant planet, must first exclude all other possibilities, which could affect the orbits of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. Moreover, to know for sure see this planet physically into the telescope.

Our beautiful blue planet may well have space twin, such a hypothesis was proposed back in the 90s by the famous Russian astrophysicist, Professor Kirill Pavlovich Butusov. According to a number of ufologists, it is on this planet, hidden from us behind the Sun, that UFOs that regularly visit the Earth can be based.

ANCIENT REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT ANTI-EARTH

The ancient Egyptians believed that each person has his own energy, astral, double. It is believed that it was from the time of Ancient Egypt, where the concept of twins was so widespread, that the hypothesis of the existence of a second Earth originates.

On some tombs of Ancient Egypt there are rather mysterious images. In their central part is the Sun, on one side of which is the Earth, and on the other - its twin. Some semblance of a person is depicted nearby, and both planets are connected through the Sun by straight lines.

It is believed that such images indicate that the ancient Egyptians knew about the existence of an intelligent civilization on the Earth's twin.

Perhaps she even provided direct influence for life in Ancient Egypt transferring knowledge to the local elite.

However, it is possible that the images simply represent the transition of the pharaoh from the world of the living to the world of the dead, located on the other side of the Sun.

Assumptions about the existence of a twin of the Earth were also expressed by the Pythagoreans, for example, Hicket of Syracuse even called this hypothetical planet Antichthon.

The ancient scientist Philolaus from the city of Croton in his work "On the Natural" expounded the doctrine of the structure of the surrounding universe.

It is noteworthy that in such ancient times, this scientist argued that our planet is just one of the many planets that exist in the surrounding space.

Philolaus of Croton also discussed the structure of the cosmos, in the center of which he placed the Fiery Source, which he called Hestnia. In addition to this central source of light and heat, according to the scientist, there was also the fire of the outer limit - the Sun. Moreover, it played the role of a kind of mirror, only reflecting the light of Hestna.

Between these two fires, Philolaus placed about a dozen planets that moved in their orbits. So, among these planets, the scientist also placed the twin of the Earth - the Anti-Earth.

HAS IT BEEN OBSERVED BY ASTRONOMS?!

Of course, skeptics will be distrustful of the ideas of the ancients, because it was once claimed that our Earth is flat and rests on three whales. Yes, not all ideas of the first scientists on the planet turned out to be correct, but in many ways they were still right. As for the twin of the Earth, which has already been called Gloria in our time, astronomical data obtained in the 17th century also speak in favor of its real existence.

Then the director of the Paris Observatory Giovanni Cassini observed near Venus unknown heavenly body. It was crescent-shaped, like Venus at that moment, so the astronomer naturally assumed that he was observing a satellite of this planet. However, further observations of this space region did not allow us to find a satellite near Venus, it remains to be assumed that Cassini had a chance to see Gloria.

One could assume that the scientist was mistaken, but decades after the observations of Cassini, the English astronomer James Short also saw a mysterious celestial object. About twenty years after Short, the alleged satellite of Venus was already observed by the German astronomer Johann Meyer, and five years after him by Rothkyer.

Then this strange celestial body disappeared and no longer caught the eye of astronomers. It is difficult to assume that these well-known and conscientious scientists were wrong. Maybe they saw Gloria, which, due to the peculiarities of the trajectory of its movement, is only once in a millennium for a limited period of time accessible to observation from the Earth?

Why, in the presence of magnificent telescopes and space probes who have visited distant planets, the reality of Gloria has not yet been proven? The fact is that it is located behind the Sun in a zone invisible from the Earth. It is worth noting that our luminary closes a very impressive area from us. outer space, whose diameter exceeds 600 Earth diameters. As for spacecraft, they are always aimed at specific objects, so far no one has set the task of looking for Gloria before them.

COMPLETELY SERIOUS REASONS

In the 1990s, the well-known Russian astrophysicist, Professor Kirill Pavlovich Butusov, started talking seriously about real existence twin of the earth. The basis for the hypothesis proposed by him was not only the observations of the astronomers already listed above, but also some features of the motion of the planets in the solar system.

For example, some oddities have long been noted by scientists in the movement of Venus, contrary to calculations, it is either ahead of its “schedule” or behind it. When Venus begins to rush in its orbit, Mars begins to lag behind, and vice versa.

Such hitches and accelerations of these two planets can be quite explained by the presence of another body in the earth's orbit - Gloria. The scientist is sure that the twin of the Earth hides the Sun from us.

Another argument in favor of the existence of Gloria can be found in the satellite system of Saturn, which can be called a kind of visual model solar system. In it every large satellite Saturn can be associated with any planet in the solar system. Here in this system of Saturn there are two satellites - Janus and Epithemius, which are located in almost the same orbit, moreover, corresponding to the earth. It is quite possible to imagine them as an analogue of the Earth and Gloria.

“There is a point in the Earth’s orbit right behind the Sun, which is called a libration point,” says Kirill Butusov. - This is the only place where Gloria may be. Since the planet rotates at the same speed as the Earth, it almost always hides behind the Sun. Moreover, it is impossible to see it even from the moon. To fix it, you need to fly 15 times further.”

By the way, the probability of accumulation of matter in libration points in the earth's orbit does not in the least contradict the laws celestial mechanics. One such point is located behind the Sun, and the planet, presumably located in it, is in a rather unstable position. It is so closely interconnected with the Earth, located at the same point, that any cataclysms on our planet can have a very negative impact on Gloria. That is why the hypothetical inhabitants of this planet, according to some ufologists, closely monitor everything that happens on Earth.

WHAT CAN GLORIA LOOK LIKE?

According to one idea, it consists of dust and asteroids captured by a gravitational trap. If so, then the planet has low density, and most likely, it is very heterogeneous, both in density and composition. It is believed that there may even be holes in it, as if in a head of cheese. It is expected that it may be hotter on the Anti-Earth than on our planet. The atmosphere is either absent or very rarefied.

Life, as you know, requires the presence of water. Is she on Gloria? Most scientists don't expect to find oceans on it. Perhaps even complete absence water, in this case there is no life here.

With a minimal amount of it, primitive forms of life are quite likely - unicellular, fungi and mold. If there is relatively much water, then the development of the simplest plants is already possible.

However, according to other ideas, Gloria is very similar to our Earth and is inhabited by intelligent beings.

It is not surprising if the inhabitants of this planet are ahead of us in their development and have been watching us closely for a long time. Do not flatter yourself that they are particularly interested in our culture and customs, but here on nuclear tests they react very quickly.

It is known that UFOs were present in the areas of almost all nuclear explosions on our planet. The accidents at nuclear power plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima did not leave UFOs without attention.

What could be the reason for such intense interest in nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons? The fact is that the Earth and Gloria are in libration points, and their position is unstable. nuclear explosions are quite capable of "knocking out" the Earth from its libration point and directing our planet towards Gloria.

Further, both a direct collision and the passage of planets in dangerous proximity to each other are possible. AT last case tidal disturbances will be so great that giant waves literally devastate both planets. So our civilization, with its constant wars, is probably pretty unnerving for the inhabitants of Gloria.

Interest in this hypothetical planet is growing every year. It is known that the assumptions of Kirill Butusov tend to be brilliantly confirmed, it is possible that this will happen with his hypothesis about Gloria. Perhaps in the near future, some of the space probes will nevertheless receive the task of "look" into the area where the Earth's twin may be hiding, and then we will find out what is actually there.

Vitaly Golubev

Gloria is the Anti-Earth behind the Sun. A mysterious celestial body, which is the twin of the Earth. What is the Anti-Earth and how did the researchers find out about it? We have always been fascinated by the search for the unusual and the unknown. The discovery of new mysteries has always been one of priority areas development of mankind.

Gloria is the Anti-Earth behind the Sun. The mysterious celestial body is the twin of the Earth. What is the Anti-Earth and how did the researchers find out about it? We have always been fascinated by the search for the unusual and the unknown. The discovery of new secrets has always been one of the priority areas for the development of mankind.

At first glance, the solar system has already been explored quite well. However, the ancient Egyptians did not think so. It was the ideas of the Egyptians about the world of "doubles" that influenced the cosmogony of Philolaus. He placed in the center of the universe not the Earth, as other thinkers had done before, but the sun. All other planets, including the Earth, revolved around the sun. And according to Philolaus, in the orbit of the Earth in a mirror opposite point there was a body similar to it called Anti-Earth.

To date, we do not have exact evidence of the presence of any body behind the Sun, but we cannot deny such a possibility. According to some scientists, this twin planet is 2.5 times the size of the Earth and is located at a distance of 600 light years from it. For the Earth, this is the closest twin planet. The average temperature on this planet is 22 degrees Celsius. Scientists have not yet figured out what it consists of - solid rocks, gas or liquid. A year on Gloria is 290 days

Astronomy assumes the probability of accumulation of matter at libration points in the Earth's orbit, one of which is located behind the Sun, but the position of this body at this point is very unstable. But the Earth itself is located at this very libration point, and here the question of their mutual position becomes not so simple. Have you ever wondered: "Is the Sun covering a large area from our eyes?". The answer is obvious - Yes, very large. Its diameter exceeds 600 Earth diameters.

Scientists named this hypothetical body Gloria. Considerations that it really is - a few. So ... the Earth's orbit is special, since the planets of other orbits terrestrial group- Mercury, Venus, Mars - according to a number of characteristics they are symmetrical with respect to it. A similar pattern is observed for the planets of the Jupiter group - in relation to its orbit, but it seems more natural, since Jupiter is a giant, and surpasses Saturn by 3 times. But the mass of the Earth's neighbor - Venus is inferior to us by as much as 18%. From this we can conclude that the Earth's orbit cannot be special, but still it is. Second. The theory of the motion of Venus was not given to scientists for a long time. They could not understand the quirks of her movement. She is ahead of estimated time, then it lags behind. It turns out that some unknown and invisible forces act on Venus. Mars does the same. Moreover, when Venus is ahead of its schedule of running in orbit, Mars, on the contrary, lags behind it. All this can only be explained by the presence of some common cause.

Gloria announced its existence back in the 17th century when the director of the Cassini Observatory in Paris saw an unknown object near Venus. This object was sickle-shaped. It was a heavenly body, but not a star. Then he thought he had discovered a moon of Venus. The size of this alleged satellite was huge, about 1/4 of the moon. Short saw the object in 1740, Mayer in 1759, and Rothkyer in 1761. Then the body disappeared from view. The crescent shape of the object spoke of large sizes but it wasn't a new star

Back in the period of Ancient Egypt, it was generally accepted that each of us has our own energy, astral double. Later they began to call him the Soul. It is from there that the theory of the existence of the Anti-Earth originates.

Researchers believe that our "double" is inhabited. After all, it is located almost at the same distance from the Sun as the Earth, and the speed of its movement is almost the same. The twin planet research team says it has found 1,094 planets that are suitable for Earth's twins. When scientists approve the status of these candidates, the search extraterrestrial civilizations will be more targeted. So, let's wait for new discoveries ...

Our beautiful blue planet may well have a cosmic twin planet Gloria, such a hypothesis was proposed back in the 90s by the famous Russian astrophysicist, Professor Kirill Pavlovich Butusov. According to a number of ufologists, it is on this planet, hidden from us behind the Sun, that UFOs that regularly visit the Earth can be based.

It is believed that such images indicate that the ancient Egyptians knew about the existence of an intelligent civilization on the Earth's twin.

Perhaps she even had a direct impact on life in ancient Egypt, passing on knowledge to the local elite.

However, it is possible that the images simply represent the transition of the pharaoh from the world of the living to the world of the dead, located on the other side of the Sun.

Assumptions about the existence of a twin of the Earth planet Gloria were also expressed by the Pythagoreans, for example, Giket of Syracuse even called this hypothetical planet Antichthon.

The ancient scientist Philolaus from the city of Croton in his work "On the Natural" expounded the doctrine of the structure of the surrounding universe.

It is noteworthy that in such ancient times, this scientist argued that our planet is just one of the many planets that exist in the surrounding space.

Between these two fires, Philolaus placed about a dozen planets that moved in their orbits. So, among these planets, the scientist also placed the Earth's twin - the Anti-Earth.

Was it observed by astronomers?!

Of course, skeptics will be distrustful of the ideas of the ancients, because it was once claimed that our Earth is flat and rests on three whales. Yes, not all ideas of the first scientists on the planet turned out to be correct, but in many ways they were still right. As for the Earth's twin planet Gloria, which has already been called Gloria in our time, astronomical data obtained in the 17th century also speak in favor of its real existence.

Then the director of the Paris Observatory, Giovanni Cassini, observed an unknown celestial body near Venus. It was crescent-shaped, like Venus at that moment, so the astronomer naturally assumed that he was observing a satellite of this planet. However, further observations of this space region did not allow us to find a satellite near Venus, it remains to be assumed that Cassini had a chance to see Gloria.

One could assume that the scientist was mistaken, but decades after the observations of Cassini, the English astronomer James Short also saw a mysterious celestial object in the same area. About twenty years after Short, the alleged satellite of Venus was already observed by the German astronomer Johann Meyer, and five years after him by Rothkyer.

Then this strange celestial body (the planet Gloria) disappeared and no longer caught the eye of astronomers. It is difficult to assume that these well-known and conscientious scientists were wrong. Maybe they saw Gloria, which, due to the peculiarities of the trajectory of its movement, is only once in a millennium for a limited period of time accessible to observation from the Earth?

Why, in the presence of magnificent telescopes and space probes that have visited distant planets, the reality of Gloria has not yet been proven? The fact is that it is located behind the Sun in a zone invisible from the Earth. It is worth noting that our luminary closes a very impressive area of outer space from us, the diameter of which exceeds 600 diameters of the Earth. As for spacecraft, they are always aimed at specific objects, so far no one has set the task of looking for Gloria before them.

Pretty serious arguments.

In the 1990s, the famous Russian astrophysicist, Professor Kirill Pavlovich Butusov, started talking seriously about the real existence of the planet Gloria. The basis for the hypothesis proposed by him was not only the observations of the astronomers already listed above, but also some features of the motion of the planets in the solar system.

Another argument in favor of the existence of the planet Gloria can be found in the satellite system of Saturn, which can be called a kind of visual model of the solar system. In it, each large satellite of Saturn can be correlated with any planet in the solar system. Here in this system of Saturn there are two satellites - Janus and Epithemius, which are located in almost the same orbit, moreover, corresponding to the earth. It is quite possible to imagine them as an analogue of the Earth and Gloria.

“There is a point in the Earth's orbit right behind the Sun, which is called a libration point,” says Kirill Butusov. - This is the only place where Gloria can be. Since the planet rotates at the same speed as the Earth, it almost always hides behind the Sun. Moreover, it is impossible to see it even from the moon. To fix it, you need to fly 15 times further.”

Video: Planet Gloria is Earth's twin

By the way, the probability of accumulation of matter in libration points in the earth's orbit does not contradict the laws of celestial mechanics. One such point is located behind the Sun, and the planet, presumably located in it, is in a rather unstable position. It is so closely interconnected with the Earth, located at the same point, that any cataclysms on our planet can have a very negative impact on Gloria. That is why the hypothetical inhabitants of this planet, according to some ufologists, closely monitor everything that happens on Earth.

What would Gloria look like?

According to some ideas, the planet Gloria consists of dust and asteroids captured by a gravitational trap. If this is true, then the planet Gloria has a low density, and most likely, it is very heterogeneous, both in density and in composition. It is believed that there may even be holes in it, as if in a head of cheese. It is expected that it may be hotter on the Anti-Earth than on our planet. The atmosphere is either absent or very rarefied.

Life, as you know, requires the presence of water. Is she on Gloria? Most scientists don't expect to find oceans on it. Perhaps even the complete absence of water, in which case there is no life here.

However, according to other ideas, Gloria is very similar to our Earth and is inhabited by intelligent beings.

It is not surprising if the inhabitants of the planet Gloria are ahead of us in their development and have been watching us closely for a long time. Do not flatter yourself that they are particularly interested in our culture and customs, but they react very quickly to nuclear tests.

It is known that UFOs were present in the areas of almost all nuclear explosions on our planet. The accidents at nuclear power plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima did not leave UFOs without attention.

What can cause such a keen interest in nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons? The fact is that the Earth and Gloria are in libration points, and their position is unstable. Nuclear explosions are quite capable of "knocking out" the Earth from its libration point and directing our planet towards Gloria.

Further, both a direct collision and the passage of planets in dangerous proximity to each other are possible. In the latter case, tidal disturbances will be so great that giant waves will literally devastate both planets. So our civilization, with its constant wars, is probably pretty unnerving for the inhabitants of Gloria.

Neptune is the eighth, most distant planet in the solar system (if you do not take into account the hypothetical planet X, the existence of which scientists about a year ago). Without a telescope, Neptune is not visible from Earth, so only Galileo was the first to observe it, who saw Neptune in 1612 and 1613, but did not recognize it as a planet.

In general, until 1781, when Uranus was discovered, astronomers believed that six planets revolve around the Sun: the Earth and those five that have been visible in the sky since antiquity. However, after it became clear that there were at least seven planets, scientists began to suspect something: calculations of the orbit of Uranus clearly indicated that there was another massive body behind it.

These suspicions were supported by a mathematical observation: in 1766, Johann Titius noticed that the distances of the planets known at that time from the Sun fit into a simple pattern, only the planet between Mars and Jupiter was missing.

At first, these calculations did not arouse much enthusiasm, but when it turned out that the newly discovered Uranus also fits into the Titius pattern, and between Mars and Jupiter there was dwarf planet Ceres, the calculations of Titius were respected. So much so that some astronomers even came up with a name for the planet beyond Uranus - Ophion.

True, the planet discovered in 1846 by the German astronomer Johann Galle deceived their expectations, being too close to the Sun: 30.1 astronomical units against the expected 38.8. The Titius pattern again fell out of favor, and even a discovery at almost the right distance of 39.5 AU. didn't save her.

It should be noted that the discovery of Neptune is not the merit of Halle alone, the discovery of the planet was preceded by a period of searches for it by various scientists, and the discovery was followed by another period of debate about who exactly should be considered the real discoverer.

Visit to Neptune

For a long time, little was known about Neptune: although it can be seen from Earth through a telescope, it is so bad that it was still not really clear. However, in the mid-1990s - early 2000s, Neptune was able to look space telescopes- "Hubble" and "Spitzer", which did not interfere earth atmosphere, and so they had a better view of the distant planet.

The only spacecraft that saw Neptune up close was Voyager 2, which flew past the planet and its moons on August 24-25, 1989. At the same time, Neptune was in his field of vision from June to October of this year, and a significant amount of knowledge about Neptune was obtained precisely by Voyager.

Neptune is gas giant. A day on the planet lasts 16 hours, and a year is 165 earth years. Most of The planet is made up of a very dense and hot mixture of water, ammonia and methane, and inside there may be a solid core the size of the Earth. The temperature in the center of the planet is five to six thousand degrees. The atmosphere is mostly hydrogen, helium, and methane, which is what makes the planet so blue.

Voyager also confirmed the existence of rings around Neptune, and they showed strange thickenings, although by all calculations such dust clots should be evenly distributed throughout the ring. Scientists suggest that this is the effect of the attraction of one of Neptune's satellites - Galatea.

Also spacecraft discovered on Neptune strong winds and storms, although before that it was thought that it was too cold for any activity in the atmosphere.

One of the storms even got given name- Large dark spot. When Voyager observed Neptune's atmosphere, it was the size of the Earth and was moving at over a thousand kilometers per second. Astronomers tried to find this storm again with Hubble, but to no avail, but the telescope saw two other large storms.

Triton

Voyager was able to consider six satellites of Neptune (a total of 14 are known today, of which the last satellite was found in 2013), including the largest of them, Triton.

Triton is terribly cold: -235 degrees Celsius. At the same time, there are geysers on the satellite that “spit out”, presumably, a mixture of liquid nitrogen, methane and dust to a height of eight kilometers, where it all freezes and falls back to the surface of Triton.

In its orbit, Triton moves in the direction opposite to the rotation of the planet. This indicates that perhaps Triton is an alien trapped in Neptune's gravitational field, which is pulling it closer and closer. Scientists believe that after millions of years gravitational forces will tear Triton into small pieces and it will become another ring of Neptune.

Interestingly, Triton was found just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune. He was noticed by William Lassell, a brewer by profession and an amateur astronomer, who invested from the sale of beer in the construction of his own observatory.

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