Recent posts about Wells, Minnesota on our local forum with over 2,000,000 registered users. Wells is mentioned 427 times on our forum: Latest news from Wells, MN collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: German (46.7%), Norwegian (9.7%), American (6.1%), English (3.0%), Polish (2.8%), French (1.5%). Current Local Time: CST time zone. Land area: 1.35 square miles.
Neptune, the most distant planet, takes 4.16 hours for light to reach. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, takes light 4.3 years to get to. The fastest spacecraft ever launched from Earth is NASA's New Horizons mission, which will make a close encounter with Pluto and its moons in 2015.
Neptune's outermost (and third largest) moon is Nereid, which has an irregular shape. It is the smaller of Neptune's 2 larger moons. It has a VERY elliptical orbit, going as close as 867,000 miles from Neptune and as far as 6 million miles from it; it may be a captured asteroid. It takes almost one Earth year for Nereid to orbit Neptune in this extreme orbit (360.1 days).