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A new inner moon of Neptune

During its 1989 flyby, the Voyager 2 spacecraft imaged six small moons of Neptune, all orbiting well interior to the large, retrograde moon Triton(1). Along with a set of nearby rings, these moons are probably younger than Neptune itself; they formed shortly after the capture of Triton and most of t...

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Autores principales: Showalter, M. R., de Pater, I., Lissauer, J. J., French, R. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30787452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0909-9