1) American musical trio 2) Animal god 3) Brother of Jupiter and Pluto 4) Brother of Pluto 5) Eighth planet 6) Eighth planet from the sun 7) Eighth rock from the sun 8) Faraway planet 9) Fourth largest planet 10) Furthest planet from the sun 11) Gas giant 12) God of the ocean 13) God of the oceans 14) God of the sea
Found on
https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/neptune
1) Distantplanet 2) God 3) Planet 4) Sea king
Found on
https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/neptune
Roman god of the sea.
Found on
http://homeworkhelp.stjohnssevenoaks.com/glossary.htm
• (n.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter. • (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775...
Found on
http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/neptune/
Eighth planet from the Sun, a gas giant or Jovian planet.
Found on
http://www.braeunig.us/space/glossary.htm
he was identified with the Greek Poseidon and thus became a deity of the sea. His female counterpart, Salacia, was perhaps originally a goddess of ...
Found on
http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/n/26
Roman name of Poseidon.
Found on
http://www.chalquist.com/writings/greekmyth/
Neptune seen by Voyager 2 in 1989 at a range of 7.1 million km (4.4 million miles). At center is the Great Dark Spot • Discovery • Atmosphere • Interior • Magnetic field • Moons & rings • Exploration • Statistics Normally the eighth planet from the Su...
Found on
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/Neptune.html
SOLAR SYSTEM - PLANETARY ORBITAL DATAAverage dist.from Sun (AU) -
30.069Min. distance from Sun (AU) -
29.811Max. distance from Sun (AU) -
30.327Eccentricity of orbit -
0.009Inclination to ecliptic(°) -
1.77SOLAR SYSTEM - PLANETARY PERIODS AND MOTIONS Sidereal period (days...
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20448
In Roman mythology, god of water, who became god of the sea only after his identification with the Greek
Poseidon. ...
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688
1. The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter. ... 2. <astronomy> The remotest known planet of our system, discovered as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris by Galle, of Berlin, September 23. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000...
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20973
Eighth planet from the sun, a gas giant or Jovian planet.
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php
Nep'tune noun [ Latin
Neptunus .]
1. (Rom. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
2. (Astron.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the com...
Found on
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/N/15
Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. It has eight satellites, the largest being Triton and Nereid, and a faint planar system of rings or ring fragments. It has a mean distance from the sun of 4497 million km and takes 164.8 years to orbit the sun and 14 hours to rotate.
Found on
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AN.HTM
Neptune was the Roman name for the Greek god Poseidon. He was the son of Saturn and Rhea, and the brother of Jupiter and Pluto. He is generally represented with a trident in his right hand, a dolphin in his left, and with one of his feet resting on part of a ship; in others in a chariot drawn by sea-horses, with a triton on each side. He was said t...
Found on
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/D1N.HTM
HMS Neptune was a British light cruiser of 7175 tons displacement of the Leander Class launched in 1933, that saw action during the Second World War before being sunk in 1941. She was armed with eight 6-inch guns, eight 4-inch anti-aircraft guns, four 3-pounder anti-aircraft guns, ten smaller guns and eight 21 inch torpedo tubes arranged in two qua...
Found on
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/RN.HTM
Planet Neptune usually has the eighth most distant orbit from our star the Sun. It is gas giant, although smaller than Jupiter or Saturn. It was discovered after observing abnormalities in Uranus' orbit. Calculations were made and Neptune was observed where the figures said it had to be. Neptune has three very faint rings (not visible from Earth)....
Found on
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/computing/MainPage/SecDepts/Physics/Resources
Planet eighth in order from the sun. In Roman mythology, god of the sea (Greek name, Poseidon).
Found on
https://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/glossary.htm
Operational code name for the Allied D-Day Normandy beach landings - the assault phase of Operation Overlord
Found on
https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20490
Series of amphibious armoured transports [UK]
Found on
https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20785
noun a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; `the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846`
Found on
https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974
(astronomy) Click images to enlargeEighth planet in average distance from the Sun. It is a giant gas (hydrogen, helium, methane) planet, with a mass 17.2 times that of Earth. It has the fastest winds in the Solar System. Mean distance from the Sun 4....
Found on
https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21221
(mythology) In Roman mythology, god of water, who became god of the sea only after his identification with the Greek Poseidon
Found on
https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21221
See Poseidon.
Found on
https://www.infoplease.com/arts-entertainment/mythology/greek-and-roman-myt
any whelk of the genus Neptunea, esp. N. decemcostata, common along the eastern coast of North America and having a shell with seven to ten raised reddish-brown spiral ridges on a pale beige or yellow background.
Found on
https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/neptune
No exact match found.
