Unidentified Man: Is Neptune a planet, because everybody knows that Neptune's orbit is crossed by Pluto's.
Its elliptical orbit actually crosses Neptune's path, yet the timing of the two planets' respective motions ensures that, like figures in a clockwork model, they never collide.
Unlike the long-lived storms of Jupiter, one of which (the Great Red Spot) has been tracked continously by observers for many decades, Neptune's spots seem to be relatively short-lived.
And many of these, though they all follow different paths, take the same, surprising, length of time to go round the sun: they complete exactly two orbits for each of Neptune's three.
And tech companies may be especially prone to those backlashes: Not only are tech customers particularly Web savvy, but the tech industry itself frequently sails into uncharted and--from a PR perspective--dangerous waters, says Waggener Edstrom's Neptune.
As it is, it's a bit more distant than Neptune, so it's not easy to get to.
While observations of the weather on Uranus and Neptune are still in their infancy, Jupiter's clouds are more familiar.
The design of the new observatory is based in part on two larger networks of seafloor monitors off the coast of British Columbia's Victoria Island, named VENUS and NEPTUNE.
Grand National third Snowy Morning is also likely to take his chance in Saturday's feature, having finished second to Neptune Collonges in the Guinness Gold Cup at Punchestown on his latest outing.
Sears was so hot for the Neptune it agreed to carry Maytag appliances in the U.S. and Canada for the first time.
The "new" Solar System agreed at the IAU's General Assembly has eight planets - Mercury to Neptune - and at least three dwarf planets: Pluto, Eris and the largest asteroid in the Solar System, Ceres.
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It's possible that the smaller giant planets - Uranus and Neptune, these guys are usually called ice giants rather than gas giants - they may have had some violence in their history.
To cap that, having looked at Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 2's controllers decided to extend the mission by taking pictures of Uranus and Neptune as the craft continued on its journey out of the solar system.
Almost two-thirds of the stars likely host a planet measuring about five times Earth's mass, and half of them harbor a planet about the mass of Neptune.
But instead, Neptune thinks better of his rant in order to get down to the business of saving the epic's hero, Aeneas.
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