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Topic: New Neptune moon 'Hippocamp' discovered

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 02-19-2019 01:32 PM A new small moon circling Neptune [URL=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/new-moon-found-february-2019-neptune-hippocamp-a8787076.html]has been discovered[/URL], according to research published in the journal Nature. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]The new object, named Hippocamp, has been discovered floating around Neptune. It is the planet's smallest moon, and behaves very strangely, in ways that could shed light on how it first formed. Hippocamp had already been captured in previous images of the nearby planet. But astronomers' technical abilities were not enough to actually spot it, and only now has the tiny world actually been noticed and catalogued... The new moon is named Hippocamp, after the sea creature in Greek mythology. Its tiny size makes it the smallest of Neptune's collection of moons, and it is only about 34 kilometers across. The moon orbits close to Proteus, the biggest and furthest out of those inner moons. Astronomers say it is likely that Hippocamp was formed when fragments came off that bigger object when it was hit by a big comet.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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