Neptune is one of the eight planets in our solar system. It was named after the Roman god of the sea. It was discovered on September 23rd 1847 by Heinrich D'Arrest and Johann Galle. No one before this time knew that Neptune existed, because Neptune is invisible to the naked eye. Neptune is known as an ice giant, but is the smaller than the other ice giant, Uranus. Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun at about 2.8 billion miles away, therefore making it the coldest planet. Neptune is the most dense out of all of the other planets in our solar system. It takes about one hundred and sixty five years for neptune to orbit the sun. Since Neptune does not have a solid surface, the lengths of days are different in different parts of Neptune. …show more content…
When a planet does not have a steady day pattern it is called differential rotation. Neptune is made of water, ammonia, and methane, and it’s atmosphere is made of hydrogen, helium, and methane. Neptune has a very strong magnetic field.The magnetic field on Neptune is said to be twenty seven times more powerful than the Earths. Since the magnetic field is so powerful it can cause phenomenons like auroras, which are similar to the Northern lights. The core of Neptune is made of iron and other rocky materials. The core is also extremely hot. It can reach temperatures up to 5130 degrees celsius. Neptune is a dark bluish color. The reason it is this color is because the methane in Neptune’s atmosphere takes in red light from the sun, and sends back blue light from the sun into …show more content…
The innermost ring of neptune is called “The Galle Ring”, which was named after Johann Galle; the first person to see neptune through a telescope. The Galle ring is about 2,000 kilometers wide and orbits around 42,000 kilometers away from neptune. The next ring out of the five is called the Le Verrier ring. It has a width of about 113 kilometers and is around 53,000 kilometers away from the planet. One of neptunes smaller moons called Despina orbits outside of this ring. The ring after this is called the Lassel ring. It is the widest ring in the System of Neptune at about 4,000 kilometers wide. The next ring is called Arago which is the fourth ring and it is about 100 kilometers wide. The last ring is called The Adams Ring. This ring is the most studied because it is the farthest away and from Neptune. This ring is the skinniest of them all at about 15-50 kilometers wide. It is about 62,000 kilometers away from
Many scientists have theories on why Saturn has rings, but nobody knows for sure. Because of this it makes it a very heated topic today. This is the simplest answer that I have found. The planet is has a great deal of dust, particles, and ice at varying distances from its surface. These items are most likely trapped by gravity. The rings appear because of the wavelengths of light reflected by these rings of debris. Although there are many theories behind why Saturn has rings, I believe that this theory is the one that makes the most sense to me.
The Kuiper Belt is an icy-bodied disc shapes area of the Solar System. Kuiper Belt has a circular shape, to be exact, it is a curved plane. It is over 4.5 to 7.4 billion kilometers from Sun. This is roughly 30 to 50 times the distance of Earth from Sun. The Kuiper Belt has been said to resemble the Asteroid Belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter. The difference between the Kuiper Belt and the Asteroid Belt is that the bodies are icier due to their distance from the Sun. The Kuiper Belt objects includes Pluto and other comets that orbit beyond Neptune. Most Kuiper Belt objects are made up of frozen volatiles such as methane, water and ammonia. In 1950 astronomer Gerald Kuiper predicted the existence of the Kuiper Belt and the find was named
Jovian Planets are the next four planets in our solar system and are also known as “gas giants”. These four planets consist of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Jovian planets are different from Terrestrial planets in that they are farther from the sun, which makes them cooler, mostly gaseous in composition, have low density and fast rotation. Some of the planets also have rings
To date Uranus has been found to have 21 satellites four of which have yet to be named and 11 rings.
On June of 1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin began pressuring the Allies to create a second front in Western Europe, so that pressure could be relieved from the Soviet Union. But before they could open up a second front they first had to establish a foothold in Western Europe. For this reason, Operation Neptune was developed, its main goal: develop a foothold for the Allies in Western Europe. Operation Neptune was considered one the greatest events in history and the largest seaborne invasion in recorded history. Due to the size and importance of the operation, great planning and preparation had to be done for it. Failure of the operation would have weakened the Allies position. This investigation will research whether
Pluto is usually farther from the Sun than any of the nine planets; however, due to the eccentricity of its orbit, it is closer than Neptune for 20 years out of its 249 year orbit. Pluto crossed Neptune's orbit January 21, 1979, made its closest approach September 5, 1989, and will remain within the orbit of Neptune until February 11, 1999. This will not occur again until September 2226.
Poseidon is a god with a lot of names he is most famous as the god of the sea, he controls the waves, the tsunamis, he cares for the plants and animals under the water he is Poseidon king of all waters. Poseidon had quite a bit of affairs. One affair involved his sister Demeter. He thought she was absolutely beautiful and desired her deeply. To avoid his constant sexual desires, Demeter turned herself into a mare, an act that only made Poseidon’s desire higher than ever. He turned himself into a stallion and raped her. This affair created a horse named Arion.
Neptune gets its name from the Roman god of the sea. Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun and is the fourth largest. Neptune was discovered after scientist noticed that Uranus orbit didn't follow Newton's law, it was presumed that there must be another planet. Galileo originally thought Neptune was a star. Pluto's orbit is so eccentric, it sometimes crosses the orbit of Neptune making Neptune the most distant planet from the Sun. Neptune has been visited by only one spacecraft, Voyager 2 on Aug 25, 1989. Much of we know about Neptune comes from this single encounter. Neptune's blue color is largely the result of absorption of red light by methane in the atmosphere. Neptune has rapid winds and large storms. Neptune's winds are the fastest
In the second installment of The Heroes of Olympus, The Son of Neptune is a thrilling adventure written by Rick Riordan. The book begins where The Lost Hero left off. Percy, also in Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, is wandering Southern California with no memory of where he came from or who he is except one name, Annabeth. Being chased by three gorgons, Percy stumbles upon, with the help of Hera/Juno, Camp Jupiter. In the Roman camp, Percy joins the 5th cohort, which are the misfits of the camp, and befriends Hazel the daughter of Pluto and Frank the son of Mars, who are the biggest misfits of all. Percy and his newfound friends are soon called on a quest. Their mission is to recover the missing standard of the entire legion. They board the Pax, a small rowboat which makes up the entire Roman navy, and embark on their journey.
On the other hand, Pluto is larger than the other 40 known moons in the solar system. There is no scientific reason to arbitrarily distinguish between planets and asteroids based on the sizes of the moons that happen to be present in a planetary system.... ... middle of paper ... ... 78, No. 1, pp. 113-117.
1. My reaction to the title The Son of Neptune was I instantly thought of Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon. The blurb reminded me of the book, The Lost Hero as both the protagonist lost their memory and had to save the world. The cover intrigued me because it was Percy Jackson, but he was holding a mysterious golden eagle. 2.
2,870,990,000 km (19.218 AU) from the Sun, Uranus hangs on the wall of space as a mysterious blue green planet. With a mass of 8.683e25 kg and a diameter of 51,118 km at the equator, Uranus is the third largest planet in our solar system. It has been described as a planet that was slugged a few billion years ago by a large onrushing object, knocked down (never to get up), and now proceeds to roll around an 84-year orbit on its belly. As the strangest of the Jovian planets, the description is accurate. Uranus has a 17 hour and 14 minute day and takes 84 years to make its way about the sun with an axis tilted at around 90° with retrograde rotation. Stranger still is the fact that Uranus' axis is almost parallel to the ecliptic, hence the expression "on its belly".
Pluto is located 7.5 billion kilometers from Earth and is only over 2,000 km in diameter. Pluto has been labeled both a planet and a dwarf planet over the years. As said by USA Today, “a planet is a celestial body that: is in orbit around the sun, is round or nearly round, and has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit, meaning it is not surrounded by objects of similar size and characteristics.” Pluto only follows two of the three rules of a planet. Pluto crosses over Neptune’s orbit and is near other dwarf planets like it. Even though it breaks one rule it was officially named a dwarf planet in “August 2006”, as stated by the Library of Congress. After this event Pluto still only has one correct classification. Pluto is a planet because
Mercury is the first planet closest to the Sun. It is the smallest planet in the solar system. Mercury rotates three times in two of its years. One of Mercury's days is equal to 176 Earth days because its rotation is very slow. What is weird is that its day is longer than its year. Mercury’s year is about 88 earth days the shortest in the solar system. It has the shortest year because it is closest to the Sun.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. It includes 4 rings. It has 67 moons too. The surface temperature is -108 degrees celsius. Jupiter is the fourth shiniest object in the the sky. Jupiter has the shortest amount of days, hence 9 hours and 55 minutes. Jupiter will orbit the sun every 118 Earth years. The red spot on Jupiter is an enormous storm on the planet. The storm has occurred for 350 years. 3 Earths can fit in the red