LarissaNeptune VII
Larissa ("LA ree suh") is the fifth of Neptune's known satellites: orbit: 73,600 km from Neptune diameter: 193 km (208 x 178) mass: ? Larissa was a daughter of Pelasgus. Harold Reitsema is now usually credited with the discovery of Larissa by ground-based stellar occultation observations. The first (and so far only) images of it were obtained by Voyager 2. Like Proteus, Larissa is irregular (non-spherical) in shape and appears to be heavily cratered. Open Issues
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