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Neptune's New Icy Companions

Posted by michael on Tuesday January 14, 2003 @05:48AM 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."

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!pF by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-14 06:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

In Soviet Russia, post firsts you!
In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-01-14 09:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Neptune moons YOU!

Nope. I shouldn't have done that. Time to go kill myself.