![An artist's concept of the tiny moon Hippocamp that was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. Only 20 miles across, it may actually be a broken-off fragment from a much larger neighboring moon, Proteus, seen as a crescent in the background. (Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted/STScI)](https://www.messagetoeagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/hippocampmoon19-220x162.jpg)
Astronomy
Is Neptune’s Hippocamp A Broken-Off Piece From A Larger Neighboring Moon, Proteus?
February 21, 2019
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MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers now think that Neptune’s tiniest moon, Hippocamp, was chipped off a larger moon, Proteus, by a cosmic collision billions of years ago. The moon was uncovered
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