[
US
/ˈnɛptun/
]
NOUN
- (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon
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a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants
the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846
How To Use Neptune In A Sentence
- The Kuiper belt is an icy disk of debris orbiting the sun, beyond Neptune, and is the original home of many comets.
- Pluto, which has the greatest orbital eccentricity of any of the Solar System planets, was during those years at perihelion and actually closer than Neptune to the Sun.
- A good example of such a costly vessel incorporating the figure of Neptune with his trident is shown in the Kalf painting in Plate XI.
- Fortunately, actual working scientists rarely bother with such niceties - so they proceed to search for Neptune, quarks and so on.
- They were on a ship a long way from Neptune, hanging in space above the ecliptic. METAPLANETARY
- Ironically, Pluto is so itteh bitteh that it doesn't really affect Uranus or Neptune at all: Lowell was wrong on that count, which makes it even more amazing that Tombaugh found the darn thing.
- Ironically, Galileo Galilei spotted Neptune more than 200 years earlier but wrongly assumed the planet was just a star.
- With Neptune on the 2nd cusp, no modern astrologer would be surprised to learn that he had no head for figures or account books.
- The innermost planet is most probably rocky, while the outermost is the first Neptune-mass planet to reside in the habitable zone. May 17th, 2006
- Thus, the two sides to Neptune are rapture or despair, delirious happiness versus pain and confusion.