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NEPTUNE FACTS





Planet: Neptune


NEPTUNE IS THE EIGHTH PLANET OF THE SUN AND THE LAST OF THE KNOWN PLANETS. WHILE IT IS THE THIRD LARGEST PLANET WITH REGARD TO THE MASS, IT IS ONLY THE LARGEST FOUR IN DIAMETER TERMS. DUE TO HIS BLUE COLOR, NEPTUNE WAS APPOINTED AFTER THE ROMAN GOD OF THE SEA.



FACTS ABOUT NEPTUNE


• Neptune needs 164.8 Earth years to orbit the Sun. On July 11, 2011, Neptune completed its first full orbit since its discovery in 1846.


• Neptune was discovered by Jean Joseph Le Verrier. The planet was not known by ancient civilizations because it is not visible to the naked eye. The planet was initially called Le Verrier after its discoverer. This name, however, was quickly abandoned and the name of Neptune was chosen instead.







• Neptune is the Roman god of the sea. In Greek, Neptune is called Poseidon.


• Neptune has the second largest gravity of any planet in the solar system, second only to Jupiter.


• The trajectory of the orbit of Neptune is approximately 30 astronomical units (AU) of the Sun. This means that it is approximately 30 times the distance from Earth to the Sun.


• The largest Neptunian moon, Triton, was discovered only 17 days after Neptune was discovered.


• Neptune has a storm similar to the Great Red Spot in Jupiter. It is commonly known as the Great Dark Point and is approximately the size of the Earth.


• Neptune also has a second storm called Little Dark Spot. This storm is about the same size as Earth's moon.


• Neptune spins very fast on its axis. The equatorial clouds of the planet take 18 hours to complete a rotation. The reason why this happens is that Neptune does not have a solid body.


• Only one spacecraft, Voyager 2, has flown by Neptune. It happened in 1989 and captured the first foreground images of the Neptunian system. The signs of Voyager 2 took 246 minutes, four hours and six minutes, to reach Earth.


• The climate in Neptune is extremely active. In its upper atmosphere, large storms pass through it and high-speed solar winds travel the planet at a speed of up to 1,340 km per second. The biggest storm was the Great Dark Spot in 1989, which lasted about five years.


• Like the other outer planets, Neptune has a ring system, although its rings are very weak. Most likely, they consist of ice particles and dust grains with a carbon-based substance that covers them.


• Neptune has 14 known moons. The largest of these moons is Titan, an icy world that spits particles of nitrogen, ice and dust from beneath its surface. It is believed that Titan was trapped by the immense gravitational attraction of Neptune and is considered one of the coldest worlds in our solar system.


• Neptune has an average surface temperature of -214 ° C, approximately -353 ° F.


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