Neptune is the fourth largest planet in the solar system, and it orbits 4,504,000 km from that bright old Star, the Sun! If you decided to sail around Neptune’s diameter, it would be a 49,532 km journey! The mass of this big blue sea is 1.0247 multiplied by ten to the twenty-sixth. If you wrote that, it would be 102,470,000,000,000,000,000,000,000! You can’t even say that! You wouldn’t want to celebrate your birthday n Neptune, as one Neptunian year is equal to 165 Earth years! However, our days are only 16 hours and 7 minutes.
Galle and D’Arrest first observed Neptune on the same night, September 23, 1846! Thusly, an international dispute occurred over who got to name the planet. After a long argument involving many different names, they decided on Neptune, so it would have a Greek/Roman (If you ask me, they’re both the same.) like the other planets. Even as a new planet, Neptune was popular!
Neptune is composed of helium, methane, various ices and rocks, and 15% hydrogen. Neptune is a vivid blue because the methane absorbs all the red light in the atmosphere and there are chromophores that make the clouds blue. Neptune has the fastest winds in the entire solar system, reaching up to 2,00km an hour Neptune has no surface, only an ammonia, water, and methane sea underneath the clouds.
Neptune is one of only two planets in our solar system that cannot be seen with the naked eye. The spacecraft Voyager 2 visited it way back in 1989. After many missions in 2057, a colony was placed on Neptune, and we have been thriving! We’re only different than normal humans because our natural hair colors are different shades of blue, and we have larger lungs. I hope that all of you out there are having fun on Earth, and if you come to Neptune, visit me!
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