facts about neptune?
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Answer: Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth, slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus.
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Facts about neptune
- Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun.
- It is the fourth largest planet in the solar system.
- It has a diameter of about 49240 km.
- The position of the planet was discovered by French mathematician Urbain Joseph Le Verrier. It was discovered by Johann Gottfried Galle in 1846.
- It is the outermost gaseous planet.
- It has a rocky core surrounded by a gaseous atmosphere.
- Neptune takes around 16 hours and 7 minutes to complete a rotation on its axis.
- It takes 165 Earth years i.e. about 60225 Earth days to revolve around the Sun.
- It has 13 known moons.
- Triton is the largest moon of Neptune with a diameter of about 2889.6 km.
- The Great Dark Spot is a great storm in the southern atmosphere of Neptune discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989.
- Neptune has the mass of 1.0244×10^(26) kg.
- The density of Neptune is 1.76 g/cm^3.
- Its minimum distance from the Sun is 29.811 AU.
- Its maximum distance from the Sun is 30.327 AU.
- Its minimum distance from the Earth is 42750338 km.
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