Q&A: How much do you know about Neptune (Planet)?
blogadmin - Monday, 9 January 2012 11:06
Question by : How much do you know about Neptune (Planet)?
Hey I wondering about the Planet Neptune its very beautiful in my opinion and wanted to know more about it. These are my Questions….
What is the Revolution period?
What is the Orbit Period?
What is the Formation Date?
What is the Distance from the Sun?
What is the Distance from the Earth?
Thanks:)
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Answer by Bobby
Just Google it! Wikopedia it! Sheesh! How lazy can you get?
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1. Neptune’s revolution period (to rotate around the sun) is 164.8 years
3. 4.5 billion years
4. Aphelion 4.54567 x 109 km
Perihelion 4.44445 x 109 km
5. 4.3059 x 109 km
Discovered by:
John Ramos
Orville Redmond
Julis Steinberg
Discovery date: December 9, 1742
Epoch: J2000
Aphelion: 1,553,946,490 km (30.44125206 AU)
Perihelion: 1,452,940,833 km (29.76607095 AU)
Semi-major axis: 1,503,443,661 km (99.10366151 AU)
Eccentricity: 0.011214269
Orbital period: 920,190 days (764.79 years)
[89,666 Neptune solar days]
Satellites: 6
80±3.2% hydrogen (H2)
19±3.2% helium
1.5±0.5% methane
[ ~0.019% hydrogen deuteride ]
~0.00015% ethane
Ices:ammonia
water
ammonium hydrosulfide
methane
What is the Revolution period? 16 Hr 6 Mnt 36 Sce
What is the Orbit Period? 164.79 Earth Years
What is the Formation Date? Planets are formed over a period of millions of years. Neptune was discovered on Sept 23, 1846
What is the Distance from the Sun? Max 4,553,946,490 km, Min 4,452,940,833 km
What is the Distance from the Earth? 4,553,946,490 km Less Distance of Earth from Sun i.e. 152,098,232 km
It takes 164.79 years to travel around the Sun.
It takes 17.24 hours to make a rotation.
It was discovered on September 23,1846.
Its distance around the Sun is 2,769 to 2,819 billion miles.
It’s distance around the Earth is 4.4 billion miles.
http://nineplanets.org/neptune.html
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/neptune.htm
http://www.universetoday.com/21628/how-far-is-neptune-from-earth/
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115361/neptune.html
its far from teh sun and earth and is a blue gas