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Smashed Ice Worlds Formed Neptune's Inner Moons and Rings

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August 1, 2026 48 views
Original source: Universe Today

The planet Neptune has 16 known moons, with its largest Moon, Triton, comprising more than 99.5 percent of the mass of all of them. Triton’s incredible size has led scientists to hypothesize it was a captured object originating from the Kuiper Belt, which wreaked havoc on Neptune’s original moon sys...