Laomedeia

MOONMoon of Neptune

ILLUSTRATION · NO MEASURED PROPERTIES · SHADING, NOT THE PHASE

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OVERVIEW

] MOON

Laomedeia is a moon of Neptune. It orbits Neptune at a mean distance of 2.35×10⁷ . It was discovered in 2002.

WHAT IT IS
Moon of Neptune
HOW FAR
2.35×10⁷

Its average distance from Neptune, not from Earth.

ONE ORBIT TAKES
8.67

One trip round Neptune.

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CATALOG DATA

] 22 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

THE ORBIT

The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.

Orbits
Neptune
Orbital period
8.674
Eccentricity
Inclination
36.9
Longitude of ascending node
57.6
Argument of periapsis
146.2
Mean anomaly
248.1
Element epoch
2458849.5000
Elements referred to
the ecliptic — the plane of the Earth's orbit
Apsidal precession period
2255
Nodal precession period
3154
Mean anomaly fitted to the ephemeris
259.17
Mean anomaly rate
0.111587
Apsidal precession rate
0.000437085
Nodal precession rate
−0.0003125
Agreement with the ephemeris
11.42

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

Discovered by
J. Kavelaars, M. Holman, T. Grav, W. Fraser, D. Milisavljevic

OTHER NAMES AND NUMBERS

The identifiers other catalogues file this object under, for anyone joining this data to theirs.

Also known as
Neptune XII
JPL satellite code
812
Wikidata item
Q19527
Wikipedia article
Laomedeia

WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM

Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.

Ephemeris
NEP104
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 1 DESIGNATIONS
  • Common name Laomedeia
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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. Laomedeia [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/laomedeia
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_laomedeia,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{Laomedeia}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/laomedeia},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Planetary Satellite Data.}
}

The values above were taken from JPL Planetary Satellite Data — No licence stated; citation requested. Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

That catalogue asks for this acknowledgement: Solar System Dynamics. (Downloaded 2026, September 13). Planetary Satellite Mean Elements; Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters; Planetary Satellite Discovery Circumstances. https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov

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