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Team Neptune

Team Neptune. By: Colton, Angel, Mason B, and Mason M. How Neptune Got It’s Name . Neptune got it’s name by it’s discoverer, Urbain Le Verrier. Many people thought of names, but all were rejected. Finally, Verrier claimed the right to name, and he named it Neptune. .

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Team Neptune

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  1. Team Neptune By: Colton, Angel, Mason B, and Mason M.

  2. How Neptune Got It’s Name • Neptune got it’s name by it’s discoverer, Urbain Le Verrier. Many people thought of names, but all were rejected. Finally, Verrier claimed the right to name, and he named it Neptune.

  3. Neptune’s Place in the Universe Neptune is the 8th planet from the sun. Neptune‘s rotation around the sun ( a year ) takes 164.79 Earth years. Also the length of one day on Neptune is 16 hours 6 minutes and 36 seconds. Neptune

  4. Neptune’s Appearance Neptune is never observable with the naked eye. With the use of a telescope it appears as a blue-green disk, similar in appearance to Uranus; the blue-green color comes from the methane in its atmosphere. The brightness of Neptune ranges from the magnitudes +7.7 and +8.0, so a telescope or binoculars are required to observe it. It can be also photographed as a faint star with a normal camera and high-sensitivity film. Neptune is actually 60 times the size of Earth! It has an equatorial radius 24,764 km, a polar radius of 24,341 km, and a surface area of 7.6408×10,sup>9km2.

  5. Neptune’s Atmosphere The gases on Neptune are hydrogen, helium, methane, liquid ammonia, and molten rock. You would be a bit heavier on Neptune than on a Earth, about 1.14 times more.

  6. Temperature, and weather Near the great dark spot winds blow up to 2,000 kilometers an hour. The temperature ranges on Neptune are from -240 degrees Fahrenheit to -353 degrees Fahrenheit.

  7. Satellites and rings Neptune has 13 known moons. The names are Triton, Nereid, Larissa, Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Proteus, Halimede, Sao, Laemedeia, Psamathe, and Neso. Neptune has 5 faint rings. They are called Galle, LeVerrier, Lassell, Arago, and Adams.

  8. Other interesting facts Neptune is the smallest of the gas giants. Neptune’s surface gravity is almost Earthlike. Neptune has the strongest winds in our solar system! Neptune is the coldest planet in our solar system, and one of it’s moons, Triton, is even colder!

  9. Comparison Neptune Earth Temp. -50° to 103° Wind Speeds 0-100mph Gravity x1 Temp. -240° to -353° Wind Speeds up to 2000kph Gravity x1.14

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