Neptune

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Neptune
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• The planet of cheesy music!

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Neptune

• It was discovered by mathematical predictions.
• Neptune was predicted to exist due to
  perturbations in the orbit of Uranus. Neptune
  was discovered in 1846.

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Neptune Facts

• The smallest of the gas giants
• Strongest winds of any planet blow the opposite
  direction of its rotation

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Neptune Facts

• Guardian Of the Deep
• Atmosphere.H, He, Methane
• The color would be what????

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Neptunes Interior

• H, He, Methane
• Liquid Hydrogen
• Mantle..Ice
• InteriorRocky

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Neptune

• Neptune has a Two Great Dark Spot
• Similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

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Magnetic Field

• Neptune has1/5 of the Earths M.F.

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Rings Baby

• Neptune has 4 Twisted rings
• made of dust grains

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Neptunes Rings
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Twisted rings
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More Neptune

• Neptune captured most of its 8 moons.
• Triton and Nereid

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Triton (Capture)

• Triton is the most interesting.
• It has methane ice caps.
• Triton also has a thin atmosphere
• Triton is perhaps a captured moon.

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Neptune

• Neptune was visited by Voyager 2 in 1989.