Meet Hippocamp! Neptune’s Smallest Moon Has a Name (and a Violent Past)

Interesting Facts About Neptune

Space.com with some more great information and interesting facts about Neptune.

An artist’s illustration of Neptune’s smallest moon Hippocamp in orbit around the gas giant. It’s just 20 miles across. (Image: © NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted (STScI)) A faint and frigid little moon doesn’t have to go by “Neptune XIV” anymore. Astronomers have given a name — “Hippocamp” — […]

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