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Neptune is an ice giant and outer planet located in the outer Solar System, orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on 1846-09-23 by Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams, Johann Gottfried Galle, and Heinrich Louis d'Arrest at the Berlin Observatory. The planet has several child astronomical bodies, including Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, and Galatea.
The body has a mass of 102430 and a radius of 24764. Its orbit has a semi-major axis of 4503443661, an eccentricity of 0.009456, and an inclination of 6.43. Other orbital parameters include an argument of periapsis of 44.96476227, a longitude of ascending node of 131.78422574, and a flattening of 0.0171. The synodic period is 367.49. Neptune is represented by the Unicode character ♆.
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Key facts
- Planet.name
- Neptune
- Planet.symbol
- 24px|♆|class=skin-invert, 24px|⯉|class=skin-invert
- Planet.image
- Neptune Voyager2 color calibrated.png
- Planet.caption
- Neptune in true colour, taken by Voyager 2 on August 25, 1989; at centre is the Great Dark Spot
- Planet.background
- LightBlue
- Planet.discovered
- 23 September 1846
- Planet.pronounced
- ,
- Planet.adjectives
- Neptunian (), Poseidean
- Planet.named_after
- Latin , via French
- Planet.epoch
- J2000
- Planet.apsis
- helion
- Planet.time_periastron
- 2042-Sep-04
- Planet.synodic_period
- 367.49 days
- Planet.inclination
- to ecliptic6.43° to Sun's equator0.74° to invariable plane
- Planet.satellites
- 16
- Planet.equatorial_radius
- 3.883 Earths
- Planet.polar_radius
- 3.829 Earths
- Planet.surface_area
- 14.94 Earths
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Research
3,015 papers- Clarifications: NEPTUNE Study.Indian pediatrics · 2026Jain A, Majumder SDOI: 10.1007/s13312-026-00356-x
- Neptune, the Next Pluto?-Durvalumab and Tremelimumab Face Challenges in Entering the NSCLC Space.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2023Ahn JY, Nagasaka MDOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.11.004
- A super-massive Neptune-sized planet.Nature · 2023Naponiello L, Mancini L, Sozzetti A et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06499-2
- Neptune: an environment for the delivery of genomic medicine.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2021Eric V, Yi V, Murdock D et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41436-021-01230-w
- The Nature and Origins of Sub-Neptune Size Planets.ReviewJournal of geophysical research. Planets · 2021Bean JL, Raymond SN, Owen JEDOI: 10.1029/2020JE006639
- Pediatric contributions and lessons learned from the NEPTUNE cohort study.ReviewPediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2024Modi ZJ, Zhai Y, Yee J et al.DOI: 10.1007/s00467-023-06256-7
- Looking at Neptune with a binocular.Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) · 2025Vizzutti F, Thabut DDOI: 10.1097/HEP.0000000000001106
- NEPTUNE: Phase 3 Study of First-Line Durvalumab Plus Tremelimumab in Patients With Metastatic NSCLC.Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer · 2023de Castro G Jr, Rizvi NA, Schmid P et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.09.223
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- outer planet
- Part of
- outer Solar System
- Named after
- Neptune
- Demonym
- Neptunano
- Area
- 7618300000
- Location
- outer Solar System
- Parent body
- Sun
- Child body
- S/2021 N 1
- Distance from Earth
- 4600000000
- Diameter
- 49528
- Radius
- 24341
- Mass
- 102430
- Orbital period
- 60193.2
- Image
- Neptune Voyager2 color calibrated.png
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- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- site of astronomical discovery
- Berlin Observatory
- Commons category
- Neptune (planet)
- topic's main category
- Category:Neptune
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.009456
- time of discovery or invention
- 1846-09-23
- Commons gallery
- Neptune (planet)
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 30.06992276
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- orbital inclination
- 0.72
- argument of periapsis
- 44.96476227
- longitude of ascending node
- 131.78422574
- Unicode character
- ♆
- synodic period
- 367.49
- flattening
- 0.0171
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- magnetic moment
- 2200000000000000016777216
- apoapsis
- 4537039826
- periapsis
- 4459753056
- surface gravity
- 11
- density
- 1.638
- mean anomaly
- 256.228
- volume as quantity
- 62540000000000
- epoch
- J2000.0
- temperature
- 72
- apparent magnitude
- 8
- angular diameter
- 2.4
- different from
- Neptunus
- Stack Exchange tag
- astronomy.stackexchange.com/tags/neptune
- topic has template
- Template:Neptune
- rotation period
- 16
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Article · Deutsch
Der Neptun ist der achte und äußerste bekannte Planet unseres Sonnensystems. Er wurde 1846 aufgrund von Berechnungen aus Bahnstörungen des Uranus durch den französischen Mathematiker Urbain Le Verrier von dem deutschen Astronomen Johann Gottfried Galle entdeckt. Neptun ist durchschnittlich 4,5 Milliarden Kilometer von der Sonne entfernt. Von der Erde aus hat er einen scheinbaren Durchmesser von ca. 2 Winkelsekunden. Mit einem Durchmesser von knapp 50.000 Kilometern hat Neptun fast den vierfachen Erddurchmesser und das rund 58-fache Erdvolumen. Nach Jupiter, Saturn und Uranus ist Neptun der viertgrößte Planet des Sonnensystems. Zusammen mit Uranus bildet Neptun die Untergruppe der Eisriesen. Neptun dominiert durch seine Größe die Außenzone des Planetensystems, was sich zum Beispiel an der Umlaufzeit einiger „Transneptune“ wie Pluto und der Plutino-Gruppe zeigt, die etwa das 1,5fache der Umlaufzeit von Neptun beträgt (eine 3:2-Bahnresonanz). Von den 14 bekannten Monden Neptuns ist Triton mit 2700 Kilometern Durchmesser der mit Abstand größte. Der Riesenplanet ist nach Neptun benannt, dem römischen Gott des Meeres und der Fließgewässer. Sein Zeichen ♆ ist ein stilisierter Dreizack, die Waffe des Meeresgottes. Bei der Suche nach Exoplaneten werden Objekte, die eine ähnliche Masse wie Neptun aufweisen, von Astronomen analog zu den extrasolaren „Jupiters“ oder „Hot Jupiters“ manchmal als Planet der „Neptun-Klasse“ oder als „Hot Neptune“ bezeichnet. Nach dem Planeten wurde das 1940 entdeckte chemische Element Neptunium benannt. Als einziger Planet des Sonnensystems ist Neptun von der Erde aus nicht mit bloßem Auge erkennbar. Seine Opposition war 2016 am 2. September und verlagert sich jährlich um etwa 2 Tage nach hinten.
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