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Five New Neptunian moons

Posted by michael on from the rock-paper-scissors dept.

cyclop writes "It's a new time of discoveries in the Solar System. Just when Cassini discovered two news moons on Saturn, old Earth-based astronomy strikes back by revealing five small bodies around Neptune. The faint moons seem to have eccentric and inclined orbits, and to have been captured by Neptune."

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  1. Imagine all the wonders they will find... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...circling Uranus.