Hippocamp
Moon· orbits Neptune
Hippocamp — moon of Neptune.
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Key facts
Orbit around Neptune
22.8 hours
0.95 Earth days
Science
Orbit around Neptune
- Distance from Neptune
- 3,012,611 km
- Orbital period
- 22.82 hours
- Eccentricity
- 0.0007773
- Inclination
- 47.38 °
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00112 S⊕ · 1/893 of the sunlight Earth receives
Discovery & history
- By
- M.R. Showalter, I. de Pater, J.J. Lissauer, R.S. French
Hippocamp was discovered in 2013 by M.R. Showalter and colleagues. Neptune's moons are named after sea deities and nymphs of Greek mythology. Beyond its discovery and naming, little more about it has been individually recorded.
Images
No official imagery available — this object has never been visited and no officially-licensed depiction exists.