S/2002 N 5 is a prograde irregular satellite of Neptune. It was discovered on 14 August 2002 by Matthew Holman, John J. Kavelaars, Tommy Grav, and Wesley Fraser using the 4.0-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile, but it became lost and was not observed again until Scott S. Sheppard rediscovered it on 3 September 2021. The discovery of S/2002 N 5 was announced on 23 February 2024, after observations were collected over a long enough time to confirm the satellite's orbit.[1] S/2002 N 5 orbits Neptune at an average distance of over 23 million km (14 million mi) and takes almost 9 Earth years to complete its orbit.

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