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Meet Neptune’s Recently Named Moon - Hippocamp. “Hippocamp, originally known as S/2004 N 1, is a small moon of Neptune, about 35 km (20 mi) in diameter, which orbits the planet in just under one Earth day. Its discovery on 1 July 2013 increased the number of Neptune's known satellites to fourteen. The moon is so dim that it was not observed when the Voyager 2 space probe flew by Neptune and its moons in 1989. Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute found it by analyzing archived Neptune photographs the Hubble Space Telescope captured between 2004 and 2009. The moon was formally numbered Neptune XIV on 25 September 2018 in Minor Planet Circular 111804, and named Hippocamp in February 2019. The moon is named after the Hippocamp, a mythological creature that is half horse and half fish in Greek mythology. When the moon was numbered as Neptune XIV, it remained without an official name until February 2019. • #Neptune #NeptuneMoon #Hippocamp #SmallMoon #NewlyNamedMoon #HorseFish https://www.instagram.com/p/B9L_r9hAl90/?igshid=1cxc99b0dyk2h