The planet Neptune has another moon with a diameter of only 34 kilometres. Its name is “Hippocamp” and its orbit is still within the orbit of the much larger moon Proteus. The astronomers determined the orbit of Hippocamp and determined that the moon could have formed from debris of an impact on Proteus.
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