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Proteus (also known as Neptune VIII) is the second-largest Neptunian moon and Neptune's largest inner satellite. Discovered by Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989.

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Proteus likes Hippocamp. Hippocamp is his small fragment that formed when it collided with him as an asteroid. Asteroid is dead, but on Proteus stayed like crater Pharos.

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Moons of Neptune
Moons

Despina, Galatea, Halimede, Hippocamp. Laomedeia. Larissa, Naiad, Nereid, Neso, Proteus, Psamathe, S/2002 N 5, Sao, Thalassa, Triton, S/2021 N 1

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