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Table 5

Mean orbital elements at epoch 2000 January 1.5 TDB referred to the local Laplace planes based on the precessing ellipse model fitted to the integrated orbit.

Satellite a[km] e i[o ] λ [o ] [o day−1 ] ϖ [o ] [o yr−1] Ω [o] [o yr−1] αLap [o] δLap [o]
Triton 354758. 0.00000999 156.83405 240.76345 61.25726142916 260.64357 0.40809 177.71383 0.52447729 299.41859 43.44830
Nereid 5513782. 0.75066658 7.10838 113.36741 0.99962908720 256.66455 0.00640 335.53957 − 0.03787552 269.32597 69.13203

Notes. Elements are obtained from the precessing ellipse model (e.g., Jacobson 2009) fitted to the integrated orbit of each satellite over the 400-yeartime span from 1800 January 1 to 2200 January 1. The orbit is planetocentric for Triton, but for the far more distant Nereid, the orbit has a focus located at the Neptunian system barycenter. Listed elements are semimajor axis, a, eccentricity, e, inclination, i, mean longitude, λ, longitude of periapsis, ϖ, longitude of the ascending node, Ω, mean longitude rate, , rate of apsidal precession, , and rate of nodal precession, . The right ascension and declination of Laplace plane pole referred to the ICRS are αLap and δLap, respectively. The orbital longitudes are measured from the intersection of the Laplace plane with the ICRS reference plane. Because Triton orbit is retrograde, λ = Mϖ and ϖ = Ω − ω, where M is the mean anomaly and ω is the argument of periapsis; for Nereid, λ = M + ϖ and ϖ = Ω + ω.

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