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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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Now that Pluto has been reclassified, this planet has the longest orbit around the sun |
Before its 1846 sighting, this 8th planet's existence was deduced from its gravitational effect on other planets |
Let's "sea"--Nethuns was the Etruscan equivalent of this Roman god |
In the olden navy the "crossing the line" ceremony forced new sailors to undergo hazing and pay tribute to this Roman god |
Voyager II discovered six more moons around this planet; one is bigger than the previously known Nereid |
Nereid is the third largest of its 13 moons |
It's the smallest & densest of the outer gas giants & has an appropriate name, as it has a watery interior |
Presently the farthest planet from the Sun, it has 1500-mph winds, some of the strongest in the solar system |
Pluto is in a stable 3:2 resonance with this planet, completing 2 orbits of the sun in the time the other completes 3 |
Only weeks after this planet was discovered in 1846, William Lassell discovered its largest moon, Triton |
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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 |
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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 |