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Due to tidal deceleration, this planet’s moon Despina is spiraling inward and may eventually crash into its atmosphere. (15[1])A storm of (15[1])this planet nicknamed “The Scooter” may have disappeared. (15[1])Twotinos (15[1])are bodies with a 1:2 orbital resonance to this body. This was the first planet whose existence was inferred by (-5[1])mathematics (15[2])alone. (15[1])John Couch Adams lost a race to discover this object by days (-5[1])to (*) Urbain Le Verrier. Voyager 2 was the first to observe an anticyclonic storm on this planet (-5[1])known as the Great Dark Spot. Triton is the largest moon of, for 10 points, what planet, a blue ice giant like its neighbor Uranus? ■END■ (10[2])

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