Editing Nereid (moon) (section)

== Discovery and naming ==
[[File:Kuiper_colored.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Gerard P. Kuiper, discoverer of Nereid]]
Nereid was discovered on 1 May 1949 by [[Gerard P. Kuiper]] using photographic plates taken with the 82-inch telescope at the [[McDonald Observatory]]. He proposed the name in the report of his discovery. It is named after the [[Nereid]]s, sea-nymphs of [[Greek mythology]] and attendants of the god [[Neptune (mythology)|Neptune]].<ref name="Kuiper 1949" /> It was the second moon of Neptune to be discovered, and the last before the arrival of ''[[Voyager 2]]'' (not counting a single observation of an occultation by [[Larissa (moon)|Larissa]] in 1981).<ref name="Smith Soderblom et al. 1989" />