New Moon Found Orbiting Neptune 120
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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A cheek?
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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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would have been MUCH better if it had been around Uranus...