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Hippocamp Origin

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Chronological records

2019

Mark Showalter2019

Science / Astronomy

Showalter's analysis supports the idea that Hippocamp may be debris broken from the larger moon Proteus by an ancient impact.

Names involved

Mark Showalter

Provenance

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