Neptune

By Andre, Jackson, Walter, and Nathaniel

Common name and Mythology

Common name is Neptune

Nicknames:

The Blue Planet

The Last of Gas Giants

Oceanus

Named after the Roman God of Water, Poseidon, because of its blue and waterlike look.

Position

● 8th Planet from the Sun[4.498 Billion Km]● Diameter[49,500 Km]● 3.9x Larger than Earth

Number of Natural Satellites

13 Moons

Names:

Tritonus

Proteus

Laomedeia

Neso

Examples:

Triton Neso

Satellite sent to Neptune

The Voyager 2 approached Neptune on August 25, 1989.

It gathered as much information as it could on Neptune and Triton.

Pictures Taken by Voyager 2

Revolution

Revolution Period: 60,182 (164.8 earth years)

Rotation Period: 16.11 hours

Atmosphere:

80% Hydrogen

19% Helium

1% Methane

Neptune’s Revolution and Rotation

Composition of the surface

Because Neptune is a gaseous planet, it has no definite shape or surface. Neptunes gases turn into water, methane ices, and has a core mainly made up of ice.

Travel/Effects

It took the Voyager 2, 12 years to get from Earth, to Neptune.

Neptune receives 1/1000 of the sunlight Earth does, keeping the planet extremely cold, the average temperature of Neptune is -353 degrees Fahrenheit.

Interesting FactsNeptune has very extreme storm systems, winds reach 1,300 MPH consistently. The fastest recorded hurricane speed on Earth was Hurricane Allen, which maxed out at 190 MPH, for 1 single minute.

Neptune has the second highest gravity, second only to jupiter.