I was checking in at SeaTac airport and told the check-in agent I wanted to fly to Miami, but I wanted my luggage to go to Chicago.

She said “Oh sir, we can’t possibly do that.”

I replied “Why not? You did it the last time I flew on your airline.”

I seem to remember earlier literature saying this Moon was larger than Ganymede

I think there were estimates that it was significantly larger than it actually is back before Voyager did its flyby.

Still, it’s pretty big — the largest Kuiper Belt object (at least, that is the current theory of its orgin) that we’ve ever seen.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4540/1

TRIDENT was really off the wall in mutliple respects: firstly that the mission planners were able to identify a short window in which it could make it to Neptune with only 134kg of hydrazine, and then through clever orbital mechanics, image most of Triton, imaging one side directly, and the other afterward, by imaging the moon with light reflected off Neptune’s blue atmosphere—Neptuneshine—and, more remarkably, they planned to run the instruments on the entire flyby off batteries to maximize power use, recharging from the RTG only later; and through taking advantage of changes in NASA program rules and a drop in cost of RTG’s, they were able to get mission cost down to only $431 million. To be sure, given what we have seen happen to Dragonfly, I have great doubts that they could have made that cost figure stick; but it really was a thoughtful proposal, a way to do some real science in realm of the Ice Giants for relatively low cost.

As it turned out, the two Venus missions, VERITAS and DAVINCI+, ended up being chosen instead, and thanks to funding difficulties, it’s still in doubt whether either of those will launch — and maybe TRIDENT would have suffered the same fate even if it was chosen. But it’s still an occasion of real regret that it did not happen.

All: The moon’s name is fixed. Thank you. Dumb error on my part. My brains says one thing but more and more my fingers type something else.