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What Are The Interesting Facts About Neptune?

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    Some interesting facts about Neptune are:

    ·         It has been names Neptune after the roman God of sea.
    ·         It was discovered in 1846, not by observation but actually by using mathematical prediction, only planet to have been discovered in this way
    ·         A space craft called voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet.
    ·         It is also called an ice giant because of its low temperature
    ·         Its temperature can be as low as -218 degrees centigrade
    ·         Its atmosphere is made up of helium and hydrogen
    ·         It takes 164.79 years to complete its orbit around the sun and it will complete its first orbit in 2011 after its discovery
    ·         It has 13 moons
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