ABSTRACT
Galatea Moon of Neptune also designated NVI. Discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989, it is a small, roughly spherical body approximately 79 km in radius. It is very dark, with a geometric albedo of 0.063. Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.00012, an inclination of 0.054◦, a precession of 261◦ yr−1, and a semimajor axis of 6.20 × 104 km. Its mass has not been measured. It orbits Neptune once every 0.429 Earth days.
