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Neptune
eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System, mainly composed of ice and rock
Details
- Instance of
- ice giant, outer planet
- Part of
- outer Solar System
- Has parts
- magnetosphere of Neptune
- Location
- outer Solar System
- Area
- 7618300000
- angular diameter
- 2.2, 2.4
- apoapsis
- 4537039826 km
- apparent magnitude
- 7.67, 8
- argument of periapsis
- 44.96476227
- child astronomical body
- Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, Nereid, Halimede, Sao, Laomedeia, Psamathe
- demonym
- Neptunian, Neptunano
- density
- 1.638
- described by source
- Otto's encyclopedia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), The New Student's Reference Work, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- diameter
- 49528 km
- discoverer or inventor
- Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams, Johann Gottfried Galle, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- distance from Earth
- 4300000000 km, 4600000000 km
- epoch
- J2000.0
- flattening
- 0.0171
- longitude of ascending node
- 131.78422574
- magnetic moment
- 2200000000000000016777216
- mass
- 102430
- mean anomaly
- 256.228
- named after
- Neptune
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.009456
- orbital inclination
- 1.77004347, 6.43, 0.72
- orbital period
- 164.8, 60193.2
- parent astronomical body
- Sun
- periapsis
- 4459753056 km
- radius
- 24622 km, 24764 km, 24341 km
- rotation period
- 16
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 4503443661 km, 30.06992276
- site of astronomical discovery
- Berlin Observatory
- studied by
- poseidology
- surface gravity
- 11
- synodic period
- 367.49
- temperature
- 72
- time of discovery or invention
- 23 September 1846
- topic has template
- Template:Neptune
- topic's main category
- Category:Neptune
- Unicode character
- ♆
- volume as quantity
- 62540000000000
- Wikimedia outline
- outline of Neptune
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