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Neptune
all about neptune
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Science
6th Grade
03/12/2013

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the average distance from the sun
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is 30.07 AU (4.5 billion km)
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the length of year (revolution speed)
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is 164 earth years
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rotation period
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is 16.11 hours
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diameter
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is 49,528 km
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might be rings around neptune
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when neptune moved towards a star, the stars light dimmed a little before neptune covered it.
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neptunes compition
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is mostly gas and liquid. has NO solid surface. made up of gaseous substances that get hot and dense in the interior.
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neptune is inner or outer
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outer
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neptunes surface terrian
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is, has very violent winds
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neptunes mass (earth=1)
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is 17
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neptunes axias tilt
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is a little bit more than earths axias tilt. its 28.8
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neptunes newly discovered moons
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are lumpy and irregular
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neptune's moons
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there are 13, biggest moon is triton
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triton (the moon)
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surface is icy landscape of frozen nitrogen. the frozen surface reflects sunlight well, so triton is much brighter than the other moons of neptune.
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tritons orbit
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its orbit leads scientist to think that it was formed in a different place but neptune captured it.
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fun fact
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astronomers have discoverd dozen of large comet- and asteriod like bodies lying beyond neptune.
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