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Definitions of neptune in various dictionaries:
noun - (Roman mythology) god of the sea
noun - a giant planet with a ring of ice particles
The god of the sea.
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17 days after this planet was discovered in 1846, William Lassell found one of its satellites, Triton |
The trident on Barbados' flag stands for this Roman god of the sea |
If you don't know it's the eighth planet from the sun, you're all wet |
Its moon Triton was first seen in 1846; a second satellite around this planet wasn't found until 1949 |
Geysers of what is probably nitrogen rise as high as 5 miles on Triton, this planet's largest moon |
In 2005, during the annual festival named for him, a statue of this Roman god was dedicated in Virginia Beach, Va. |
Scientists once believed that Pluto was an escaped satellite of this planet |
Since its 1846 discovery, this planet has yet to complete one trip around the sun |
Bright blue clouds of methane surround this eighth planet from the sun |
This planet's moons include Triton & the recently discovered Naiad |
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a giant planet with a ring of ice particles the 8th planet from the sun |
(Roman mythology) god of the sea counterpart of Greek Poseidon |
the planet eighth in order of distance and farthest from the Sun, after Uranus: |
in Roman mythology ( ancient stories), the god of water and the sea: |
the planet eighth in order of distance from the sun, after Uranus and before Pluto |
Neptune description |
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Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth and slightly larger than Neptune. Neptune orbits the Sun once every 164.8 years at an average distance of 30.1 AU (4.5 billion km). It is named after the Roman god of the sea and has the astronomical symbol , a stylised version of the god Neptune's trident. * Neptune is not visible to the unaided eye and is the only planet in the Solar System found by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation. Unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus led Alexis Bouvard to deduce that its orbit was subject to gravitational perturbation by an unknown planet. Neptune was subsequently observed with a telescope on 23 September 1846 by Johann Galle within a |