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Neptune
By Andre, Jackson, Walter, and Nathaniel
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Common name and Mythology
Common name is Neptune
Nicknames:
The Blue Planet
The Last of Gas Giants
Oceanus
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Named after the Roman God of Water, Poseidon, because of its blue and waterlike look.
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Position
● 8th Planet from the Sun[4.498 Billion Km]● Diameter[49,500 Km]● 3.9x Larger than Earth
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Number of Natural Satellites
13 Moons
Names:
Tritonus
Proteus
Laomedeia
Neso
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Examples:
Triton Neso
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Satellite sent to Neptune
The Voyager 2 approached Neptune on August 25, 1989.
It gathered as much information as it could on Neptune and Triton.
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Pictures Taken by Voyager 2
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Revolution
Revolution Period: 60,182 (164.8 earth years)
Rotation Period: 16.11 hours
Atmosphere:
80% Hydrogen
19% Helium
1% Methane
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Neptune’s Revolution and Rotation
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Composition of the surface
Because Neptune is a gaseous planet, it has no definite shape or surface. Neptunes gases turn into water, methane ices, and has a core mainly made up of ice.
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Travel/Effects
It took the Voyager 2, 12 years to get from Earth, to Neptune.
Neptune receives 1/1000 of the sunlight Earth does, keeping the planet extremely cold, the average temperature of Neptune is -353 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Interesting FactsNeptune has very extreme storm systems, winds reach 1,300 MPH consistently. The fastest recorded hurricane speed on Earth was Hurricane Allen, which maxed out at 190 MPH, for 1 single minute.
Neptune has the second highest gravity, second only to jupiter.