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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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(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical photograph on the monitor.) Voyager II captured a photo of the storm called the Great Dark Spot on this ice giant; the clouds are believed to be condensed methane particles |
It's named for a mythical sea god |
Unexplained movements by Uranus led to the discovery of this planet in the 1840s |
Poseidon |
Triton, the son of this male god, was half man & half fish |
Forget Pluto--this farthest planet from the sun is the only planet that can't be seen without a telescope |
From 1979 to 1999 it was the planet in our solar system farthest from the sun |
As you can guess, a satellite named Nereid, a sea nymph, circles this planet |
In 1846 astronomers found this planet from the effects it had on Uranus' orbit |
Of the 4 giant planets, it's the farthest from the Sun |
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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 |