History of Neptune
Nearly 3 billion miles away from the sun, neptune orbits the sun once in every 165 years, and has not quite made a full circle around the sun sense it has been discoverd. She is seventeen times bigger than earth as well as the fourth largest planet.
This slowest moving planet was first observed,in 1613, by an Italian scientist and scholar Galileo Galilei. He, at first mistook it for a star, and because of that he wasnt really able to get the movements understood; he was only able to be in sight of this plnet for two nights. Because of the discovery of another planet, Uranus, Neptune was fanally discoverd also in 1846. Neptune was basically the reason why Uranus goes around the sun the way it does as it is the same for Neptune. Neptune and Uranus gravitational forces influence each others orbit around the sun.
FACTS ABOUT NEPTUNE
~Neptune will be closer to the Sun than Pluto for 220 years and then reverse positions for 20 years.
~Neptune is more than 2 billion miles from the Sun.
~The largest storm on Neptune is known as the Great Dark Spot and would nearly cover the Earth if on our planet.
~Neptune will be closer to the Sun than Pluto for 220 years and then reverse positions for 20 years.
~Neptune is more than 2 billion miles from the Sun.
~The largest storm on Neptune is known as the Great Dark Spot and would nearly cover the Earth if on our planet.
