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New Moon Found Orbiting Neptune

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @07:46PM from the welcome-to-the-party dept.

Dave Knott writes "A tiny, previously unknown moon circling Neptune has been spotted by astronomers using the Hubble telescope. The moon, which is currently known as S/2004 N1, was found on July 1 by Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., NASA announced Monday. It is less than 20 kilometres wide and its orbit is 105,000 kilometres from Neptune, between those of Larissa and Proteus, two of Neptune's other 14 known moons. It circles Neptune once every 23 hours."

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Re:But wait... by JaredOfEuropa · 2013-07-16 20:05 · Score: 5, Funny

A space station?

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Re:But wait... by GodfatherofSoul · 2013-07-16 20:17 · Score: 2, Funny

A cheek?

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Re:But wait... by evilviper · 2013-07-16 21:38 · Score: 4, Funny

Too small to call it a moon, huh? Well... how about a "planet-orbiiting object" or "poo" for short?
As in, Neptune has a bit of poo right over there... Scientists suspect it came out of the moon.

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Re:But wait... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-07-16 23:40 · Score: 2, Funny

would have been MUCH better if it had been around Uranus...