Neptune

=**NEPTUNE **=


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Neptune is the 8th planet from the sun. Its average distance from the sun is about 4.5 million km. Neptune is a light blue colour that has winds going up to 2400 km an hour. Neptune is the forth largest planet in our solar system, and it weighs 17 times more than Earth. Neptune was named after the Roman God of sea and it was discovered by John Adams in September 1846.

For Neptune to orbit the sun it will take 164.8 Earth years. Neptune has 13 known moons. Its two largest moons are Triton and Nereid. Neptune’s diameter at the equator is 50 538 km. Its time to revolve on an axis is 16 hours and 7 minutes.

Neptune has only got 1.2 gravity. You can see a great dark spot in the middle of Neptune that is 4 times the size of Earth. Neptune has a cloud called the Scooter that races around the planet in just 16 hours, at 2400 km an hour. The planet also travels around the sun in an elliptical shaped orbit.

Neptune is truly a brilliant planet.

By Milosh

Neptune is the fourth largest planet.It is the furthest from the sun and is blue with clouds.It's very cold at Neptune but can only be seen with a telescope or binoculars.

Neptune was discovered in September 1846 by John Adams, from England and Urbain John Joseph Le Verrier from France.It has over 13 moons, the largest are Triton,Nereid and Proteous.The temperature of Neptune is 216 degrees celcius and it has 13 satellites altogether.In 1989 the voyager 2 spacecraft found that Neptune had a dark area made up of violently swirling masses of gas resembling a hurricane.

It spins around once in about 16 hours.Neptune is made up of chiefly,hydrogen,helium,water and sicilates.Its average from the sun is 2,793,100,000 km. Neptune travels around in an elliptical (oval shaped) orbit.It is a beautiful blue planet up in space.

By:Kristiana

Being the 4th largest in the Solar System, one of the gas giants, and furthest away from the Sun, Neptune is an interesting and an extraordinary planet that holds wonderful beauty. Hurricane winds and clouds blow around this blue planet, travelling faster than the planet itself. Neptune was discovered by John Adams, from England and Urbian Joseph Le Verrier of France in 1846. Believe it or not, Neptune is relatively new and is one of the two planets that cannot be seen without a telescope. It was named after the Roman god of the sea because of its blue colour. Neptune is made of a mixture of thick gases. Its blue colour comes from the gas methane in its atmosphere. Neptune has a cloud, called Scooter which races around the planet in just 16 hours at 2400km/h. Hurricane winds also blow around the planet. There are dark spots as well on Neptune which are known to be storms. Neptune has a diameter of 49 528 km which is four times the diameter of Earth. The average temperature on Neptune is -216 degrees Celsius. It has several rings and 13 discovered moons, Triton and Nereid being the largest. Triton is slowly spiralling towards Neptune and in 10 to100 million years, it will get so close that Neptune’s gravity will tear it apart, forming another ring. Neptune ’s interior is made of a region of compressed gasses. Deep inside, the gases blend into a liquid layer that surrounds the planet’s central core of rock and ice. Neptune is approximately 4504 million km from the sun. It takes it 16 hours and 11 minutes to make one rotation amazingly; the length of its orbit around the sun takes 164.8 earth years. Its orbit is elliptical (oval shaped) and it spins on an axis that is slightly tilted. Neptune is an astonishing planet yet there is much more to learn about it.

by Jennie ​