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Neptune's New Icy Companions

Posted by michael on from the ice-is-thin-come-on-dive-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced new moons found around Neptune. The findings represent the first discovery of moons from ground-based telescopes in more than a half-century (1949), and required an international team to track and confirm. Notable about the ice-planet Neptune is also its largest moon-Triton-which is the coldest measured object in our solar system, and as a consequence even its volcanoes spew not lava, but ice."

2 of 16 comments (clear)

  1. That's no moon... by baldass_newbie · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's a space station!

    (sorry. had to be done.)

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  2. Eh...I think your mistaken! by Neck_of_the_Woods · · Score: 4, Funny

    *snip*

    moon-Triton-which is the coldest measured object in our solar system

    *snip*

    It is clear to me that NASA has not pointed thier little devices at my last CEO's heart....

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