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New tiny moon found orbiting faraway Neptune
Associated Press ^ | Jul 15, 2013 4:08 PM EDT | Marcia Dunn

Posted on 07/15/2013 1:16:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Chalk up one more moon for Neptune.

NASA announced the discovery of Neptune’s 14th moon Monday. The Hubble Space Telescope captured the moon as a white dot in photos of Neptune on the outskirts of our solar system.

The new moon—Neptune’s tiniest at just 12 miles across—is designated S/2004 N 1. …

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Education; Science
KEYWORDS: enuten; hubbletelescope; moons; neptune; s2004n1; satellites; xplanets
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To: sportutegrl

I figured I wouldn’t be fast enough to post that comment, and I was right.


21 posted on 07/15/2013 2:57:09 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: BenLurkin

If I were to park an intersetellar asteroid ship around a planet, I would park it around a gas giant because you could easily refuel the engines with the abundant hydrogen gas and the many moons around a gas giant provide a lot of mineral weath for mining...

Just saying...

I really have to wonder sometimes.... I wonder, but belife if beyond my grasp until I can see it with my own eyes...


22 posted on 07/15/2013 3:02:23 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: MichaelCorleone
“Plus you would think Voyager 1 and/or V2 would have shown something as well.”

The scuttlebutt is that Voyager VI was supposed to find it, but Hubble found it and changed history. This is Hugh and Series. It might knock back our invention of warp drive for two centuries.

23 posted on 07/15/2013 3:47:19 PM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: Olog-hai

Are they gonna name it after Saint Skittles ?


24 posted on 07/15/2013 5:36:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...

Thanks Olog-hai.
 
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25 posted on 07/15/2013 6:12:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...

Thanks Olog-hai. Extra to APoD members.


26 posted on 07/15/2013 6:13:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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Should wind up named Enuten.


27 posted on 07/15/2013 6:15:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

There are prediscovery photos of Pluto and many other bodies such as asteroids and comets — they got missed by someone (sometimes even by the eventual discoverer) who wasn’t at the time looking for it. Prediscovery photos are handy for figuring out the orbit and orbital period of newly discovered bodies. And before photography:

Galileo’s prediscovery of Neptune
http://eotvos.dm.unipi.it/galileo%20neptune%20SAit%202009.pdf


28 posted on 07/15/2013 7:05:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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