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Neptune - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Had Neptune been moving at its regular/average speed when Galileo first observed it in 1612 and 1613, he would have most likely realized that it was a planet and not a fixed star due to Neptune's relatively rapid normal motion along the ecliptic compared to the extremely slow motion of the fixed stars. Neptune's atmosphere has the highest wind speeds in the solar system, up to 2000 km/h, thought to be powered by this flow of internal heat. As of 2005, there are two known Trojan asteroids of Neptune which have the same orbital period as the planet. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neptune_(planet)   (2749 words)

Neptune Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle, of the Berlin Observatory, and Louis d'Arrest, an astronomy student, through mathematical predictions made by Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier. Neptune is a dynamic planet with several large, dark spots reminiscent of Jupiter's hurricane-like storms. Neptune is the outermost planet of the gas giants. www.solarviews.com /eng/neptune.htm   (1686 words)

Poseidon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Neptune was worshiped by the Romans primarily as a horse god, Neptune Equester, patron of horse-racing. In the Aeneid, Neptune is still resentful of the wandering Trojans, but is not as vindictive as Juno, and in Book I he rescues the Trojan fleet from the goddess's attempts to wreck it, although his primary motivation for doing this is his annoyance at Juno's having intruded into his domain. Neptune reigns in the city centre, Bristol, formerly the largest port in England outside London. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neptune_(god)   (1677 words)

ORRERY: Neptune - ice giant From 1996-2002, the Hubble Space Telescope took a series of observations of Neptune. The only spacecraft to visit Neptune so far has been Voyager 2, in 1989, when it made its last encounter with a planet in our solar system. Neptune was found when astronomers Adams and Leverrier separately calculated the position of a new planet which they thought was altering the orbit of Uranus. www.harmsy.freeuk.com /neptune.html   (432 words)

The Planets: Understanding Astrology - astrology.com Neptune is known as the higher octave of Venus and is the second of the transcendental Planets. Neptune's glyph is the trident of Poseidon, God of the Seas. Neptune does have its showier side, as it rules movies, television, theater, fashion and all forms of glamour. www.astrology.com /aboutastrology/interpreting/planets/neptune.html   (298 words)

NASA - Neptune The icy crust of Triton, Neptune's largest satellite, has ridges and valleys that were revealed in photographs taken by the U.S. space probe Voyager 2. Neptune is surrounded by thick layers of clouds in rapid motion. Neptune's axis is not perpendicular (at an angle of 90 degrees) to the planet's path around the sun. www.nasa.gov /worldbook/neptune_worldbook.html   (1112 words)

World Almanac for Kids The average distance of Neptune from the sun is 4,498,252,900 km (2,795,084,800 mi), and its equatorial radius is 24,764 km (15,388 mi), or about 3.9 times that of the earth. The effective temperature of Neptune is about -214° C (-353° F), much like Uranus, which is more than 1.6 billion km (more than 1 billion mi) closer to the sun. The discovery of Neptune was one of the triumphs of mathematical astronomy. www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/space/neptune.html   (404 words)

Sea and Sky's Tour of the Solar System: Neptune Neptune has eight known moons, six of which were not discovered until Voyager 2's encounter with the planet in 1989. Since Neptune was known to be so similar to Uranus, astronomers were expecting to find another bland and featureless world when Voyager 2 arrived there in August of 1989. Neptune is nearly the same size as Uranus, and its composition is extremely similar. www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3i1.html   (492 words)

Neptune Neptune was first observed by Galle and d'Arrest on 1846 Sept 23 very near to the locations independently predicted by Adams and Le Verrier from calculations based on the observed positions of Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. Neptune has 13 known moons; 7 small named ones and Triton plus four discovered in 2002 and one discovered in 2003 which have yet to be named. Neptune's winds are the fastest in the solar system, reaching 2000 km/hour. www.nineplanets.org /neptune.html   (1127 words)

APOD Index - Solar System: Neptune Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989 - the only spacecraft ever to visit Neptune. Neptune will be the furthest planet from the Sun until 1999, when the elliptical orbit of Pluto will cause it to once again resume this status. Neptune's blue color therefore comes from smaller amounts of atmospheric methane, which preferentially absorbs red light. antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/neptune.html   (284 words)

Neptune - EnchantedLearning.com Neptune is about 30,775 miles (49,528 km) in diameter. At aphelion (the point in Neptune's orbit farthest from the sun) Neptune is 4,546,000,000 km from the sun, at perihelion (the point in Neptune's orbit closest from the sun) Neptune is 4,456,000,000 km from the sun. Neptune was the first planet whose existence was predicted mathematically (the planet Uranus's orbit was perturbed by an unknown object which turned our to be another gas giant, Neptune). www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/planets/neptune   (591 words)

StarDate Online Solar System Guide Neptune Neptune probably has a rocky core wrapped in a layer of frozen water and other ices. Neptune appears in the constellation Capricornus, and stages its best appearance in late summer. The core is fairly large, so Neptune is actually the third most massive planet in the solar system. stardate.org /resources/ssguide/neptune.html   (664 words)

NEPTUNE Neptune documentation generator tool will be able to produce automatically documentation from models of document the user can easily modify or define. Neptune checker tool will be able to check for well-formedness as recommended in the UML norm through OCL rules, for methodological rules. The main objective of the NEPTUNE project (Nice Environment with a Process and Tools Using Norms and Example) is to develop both a method and tools (complementary to the existing software workshops) based on the use of the UML notation. neptune.irit.fr   (552 words)

Neptune - Astronomy for Kids The clouds of Neptune taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Neptune was also the last planet visited by Voyager 2 before it left our solar system. Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and, at this distance, the Sun looks a whole lot like the other stars that would be visible from this planet. www.dustbunny.com /afk/planets/neptune   (705 words)

Neptune Neptune’s rings are made of small, dark clumps of rock. between Neptune and the Sun averages almost 2.8 billion miles. Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun, located in between Uranus and Pluto. www.kids-and-space.com /sites/neptune.htm   (129 words)

Neptune Technology Group Neptune has harnessed its 114 years of experience in superior service to the water utility industry to provide intelligent Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) solutions to both the electric and gas utility industries. Neptune is proud to take utility management technology one giant leap forward with the E-Coder)R900i which integrates two proven technologies – the E-Coder solid state absolute encoder and the R900 meter interface unit – into one ground-breaking device. At Neptune, evolution and revolution are one and the same. www.neptunetg.com   (171 words)

KidsAstronomy.com - Neptune Neptune was originally only the god of water, but was latter extended to the ocean when he became associated with the Greek god Poseidon. Because Neptune is so far away, it is difficult to see any of these worlds. Neptune has a giant storm much like the storm on Jupiter. kidsastronomy.com /neptune.htm   (220 words)

Neptune and Pluto While he was observing the Jupiter system on 28 December 1612 he recorded Neptune as an 8 Once the orbit of Neptune was computed it was seen that both Adams and Le Verrier had been quite lucky with their predictions. Neptune was to be recorded several more times, without being recognised as a planet, over the following years. www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Neptune_and_Pluto.html   (3124 words)

Neptune Article "Neptune" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 27 December 1998 (Revision 2). Neptune was held in much higher regard as Neptune Equester, the god and patron of horse-racing and horses. Despite the fact that his cult grew after his equation with Poseidon, Neptune was far less popular among sailors than Poseidon was among the Greek mariners. www.pantheon.org /articles/n/neptune.html   (129 words)

Neptune The family of moons surrounding Neptune is unusual because Triton, the largest, is over 2600 kilometers. Neptune is no larger than Uranus but is much further away, so it is harder to see. Neptune can be seen with binoculars, but a telescope gives a much better view. www.lessonplanspage.com /more/205nep.html   (606 words)

The Planet Neptune However, our most detailed information about Neptune has come from the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989. Neptune has been particularly challenging to study from the ground because its disk is small and badly blurred by the Earth's atmosphere at that distance. Neptune is like Uranus in many ways, but has its own unique features. csep10.phys.utk.edu /astr161/lect/neptune/neptune.html   (115 words)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Planets Most of the time, it is the eighth planet from the Sun, but because of Pluto's odd-shaped orbit, Neptune is actually the farthest out of the nine planets for about 20 years out of every 248 years. NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew over Neptune's north pole in 1989. Mathematicians had accurately predicted where Neptune could be discovered, based on its gravitational effect on Uranus. www.jpl.nasa.gov /solar_system/planets/neptune_index.html   (229 words)

Neptune Consulting Group Inc.: Welcome to Neptune.Net Since we have designed and deployed networks for many notable Internet Service Providers (ISPs) over the years, we decided to start our own ISP service - Neptune.Net - in 1992. Neptune has been designing, installing and monitoring customer networks and network services for over 15 years. Neptune Consulting Group, Inc. has been in the business of providing professional Information Technology (I.T.) services since 1989. www.neptune.net   (233 words)

What is NEPTUNE? NEPTUNE U.S. will seek funding through the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), which is included in the President's FY 07 budget and is slated to begin in October 2006. October Canada Foundation for Innovation and British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund announce CAN$62.4 million in funding for the NEPTUNE Canada Project. NEPTUNE Canada, based at the University of Victoria, has already received Canadian Federal and Provincial funding to build the northern third of the network. www.neptune.washington.edu /pub/whats_neptune/whats_neptune.html   (1311 words)

NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Neptune: Overview Interestingly, due to Pluto's unusual elliptical orbit, Neptune is actually the farthest planet from the Sun for a 20-year period out of every 248 Earth years. The eighth planet from the Sun, Neptune was the first planet located through mathematical predictions rather than through regular observations of the sky. After being ignored by French astronomers, Le Verrier sent his predictions to Johann Gottfried Galle at the Berlin Observatory, who found Neptune on his first night of searching in 1846. sse.jpl.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Neptune   (194 words)

Neptune    Neptune, which is usually the eighth planet from the Sun, is a very cold place. Occasionally, the ninth planet Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit and becomes the "eigth planet". Its bluish color comes from its atmosphere of methane gas. www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/neptune/neptune.html   (92 words)

NEPTUNE Canada NEPTUNE Canada March 2006 Newsletter is available for downloading (1.2 MB, PDF opens in new window) [Uploaded: December 20, 2005] Copyright © 2003, Neptune Canada, University of Victoria NEPTUNE Stage 1 is the first part of this joint U.S.-Canada venture led by the University of Victoria and, in the US, by the National Science Foundation. www.neptunecanada.com   (407 words)

Neptune Mountaineering Outdoor Activities For over 33 years, the name Neptune has been well known to climbing and skiing enthusiasts all over planet Earth. In October 2005 the Adventure Philosophy team from New Zealand completed one of the last great sea kayaking journeys - the circumnavigation of South Georgia Island. Send us your name and email address and we'll add you to our Neptune's Newsletter. www.neptunemountaineering.com   (433 words)

The Neptune Association Founded in December 2002, the Association is dedicated to the memory of those 764 seamen from the Royal Naval Cruiser H.M.S. Neptune and 73 more from the K Class Destroyer H.M.S. Kandahar, who died when the ships were sunk by mines in Libyan waters on the night of 19th/20th December 1941. For New Zealand and South Africa the sinking of the two ships was the single largest loss of life of their nationals in the entire war. www.hmsneptune.com   (433 words)

Neptune Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the summer of 2001 Neptune Circle was born, originally hosted on Anglefire. Neptune Circle is a Flash cartoon series about the wacky misadventures of the people who live on Neptune Circle, a street in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Neptune Circle continued to make flash throughout the years, usually with long gaps in between flashes due to the busy schedules of the two animators. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neptune_Circle   (812 words)

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