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Neptune acquires a 14th moon thanks to closer study - Forum

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Neptune acquires a 14th moon thanks to closer study
archmageDate: Tuesday, 16-July-2013, 8:19 PM | Message # 1
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Neptune has 14 moons orbiting it and not just 13. The extra one has been discovered by an astronomer studying archive images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The moon is estimated to be 20 kilometres in diameter and orbiting at a distance of around 105,000 kilometres above the planet.
 
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