Neptune's newest, tiniest moon likely piece of bigger one
Phys.org - Wed 20 Feb 19Neptune's newest and tiniest moon is probably an ancient piece of a much larger moon orbiting unusually close.
Neptune’s smallest moon keeps getting smashed up and resurrected again
Newscientist - Wed 20 Feb 19A tiny moon of Neptune called Hippocamp, first spotted in 2013, has probably been smashed up and reassembled around nine times in the last 4 billion years
Meet Neptune's New Moon, Hippocamp
Discover Magazine - Wed 20 Feb 19Neptune has a new moon, and it's also the gas giant's smallest to date — only a little over 20 miles across. The brand new satellite is called Hippocamp. Astronomers led by Mark Showalter ...
Meet Neptune's new moon, Hippocamp, Astronomy.com - Wed 20 Feb 19New moon found in our solar system: Scientists unveil 'Hippocamp' floating around Neptune
The Independent - Wed 20 Feb 19Object had been hiding in plain sight
Meet Hippocamp: Neptune's smallest moon has a name (and a violent past)
FOXNews - Fri 22 Feb 19A faint and frigid little moon doesn't have to go by "Neptune XIV" anymore.
Meet Hippocamp: Neptune's Smallest Moon Has a Name (and a Violent Past), Livescience - Thu 21 Feb 19Neptune’s Tiny Moon May Be Debris From Larger Satellite
Geek.com - Thu 21 Feb 19Astronomers believe Neptune’s tiniest moon, Hippocamp, was chipped off larger satellite Proteus by a cosmic collision billions of years ago. Spotted in Hubble Space Telescope photos taken ...
Small, icy and elusive: Scientists discover a new moon at Neptune that Voyager missed
L.A. Times - Wed 20 Feb 19When Voyager II flew past Neptune in August of 1989 it revealed a complex system of 13 moons, six of which had never been seen before. Thirty years later, scientists say the space probe missed ...
A brand new moon has been discovered orbiting around Neptune
Daily Mail - Wed 20 Feb 19Scientists from the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, found the tiny moon lurking in old images from the Hubble telescope.
Researchers develop a technique that spots tiny moon orbiting Neptune
Ars Technica - Wed 20 Feb 19Technique transforms every image from a Hubble orbit into same frame of reference.
Meet Hippocamp, the solar system's newest moon - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Wed 20 Feb 19Astronomers spot a neighbor of Neptune that was missed till now.
Neptune’s newly discovered moon may be the survivor of an ancient collision
The Verge - Wed 20 Feb 19A newly discovered small moon of Neptune is coming into clearer focus as astronomers have now pinpointed this tiny rock’s orbit and where it might have come from. The moon’s ...
Neptune's new moon Hippocamp is so tiny that it wasn't detected in 1989 during flyby, scientists report
USA today - Wed 20 Feb 19A new moon has been discovered orbiting Neptune, joining the other 13 we'd already known about. It's so small that it wasn't detected in 1989 during the Voyager 2 flyby of ...
Tiny Neptune moon spotted by Hubble may have broken from larger moon
ScienceDaily - Thu 21 Feb 19After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has at last come up with an explanation for a mysterious moon around Neptune that they discovered ...
Tiny Neptune moon spotted by Hubble may have broken from larger moon, Eurekalert - Thu 21 Feb 19Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, SpaceDaily - Thu 21 Feb 19
Hubble helps uncover origin of Neptune's smallest moon Hippocamp
Eurekalert - Thu 21 Feb 19Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, along with older data from the Voyager 2 probe, have revealed more about the origin of Neptune's smallest moon. The moon, which was discovered ...