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How long is a day on Nereid?

About 10.8 Earth hours ยท orbits Neptune every 360.1 days

A moon with the most eccentric orbit of any major moon - its distance from Neptune varies by 7 million kilometers!

Nereid has the WILDEST orbit of any major moon! Its distance from Neptune varies from 1.4 million km to 9.6 million km. That's a 6.8x difference! It's probably a captured Kuiper Belt object that got too close to Neptune!