Neptune
New Horizons Mission Practices Telescopic Imager on Pluto’s Twin
[/caption] This summer, the New Horizons spacecraft was awoken for its annual systems checkout, and took the opportunity to exercise…
Clearing the Confusion on Neptune’s Orbit
[/caption] Last week, Space.com had a great article about how on August 20, 2010, Neptune finally completed one orbit around…
New Trojan Asteroid Discovered Around Neptune
[/caption] Astronomers have found a new object in a region of Neptune’s orbit, tucked away in a very hard-to-find location,…
Comet Whacked Neptune 200 Years Ago
Researchers studying Neptune's atmosphere found evidence that a comet may have hit the planet about two centuries ago. Was this…
Neptune Fact Sheet
[/caption] The following Neptune fact sheet is based on NASA's excellent planetary fact sheets. Neptune is the 8th planet from…
Nereid
[/caption] Nereid is the name given to the third largest of Neptune's moons, and the second to have been discovered…
How Far is Neptune’s from the Sun?
Neptune's distance from the Sun is 4.5 billion km; more specifically, it's 4,503,443,661 km. If you're still using the Imperial…
How Long Does it Take Neptune to Orbit the Sun
[/caption] Neptune orbits much further away from the Sun than the Earth, so its orbit takes much longer. In fact,…
Solar System Orbits
[/caption] One of the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) requirements for a celestial body to be classified as a planet (or…
Radius of the Planets
[/caption] One way to measure the size of the planets is by radius. Radius is the measurement from the center…