Neptune

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(Roman mythology) god of the sea

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a giant planet with a ring of ice particles

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This eighth planet orbits the star known as Kepler-90.
The latter, a scorching, rocky mass 30 per cent larger than Earth, is the eighth planet found to be orbiting the same star.
1846 - Eighth planet Neptune is confirmed by Johann Gottfried Galle using predictions by Urbain Le Verrier.
William Herschel stumbled upon Uranus in 1781; astronomer Johann Galle spotted Neptune in 1846, almost exactly where mathematicians Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams predicted an eighth planet should be.
Liddi accidentally travels to the lost eighth planet through the weakening conduits that allow travel between the planets.
In 1846, Urbain Leverrier in France, and John Adams in England used Newton's gravitational laws to independently predict that variations in the orbit of Uranus were due to the influence of an eighth planet. Soon after, the Berlin Observatory found the predicted planet and named it Neptune.
The eighth planet in our solar system is about 2.7 billion miles from the sun and very cold.
-- The eighth Planet Organic stores to open, which is also its second in Calgary, Alta.
On September 23, 1846, J G Galle of the Berlin Observatory officially confirmed the existence of an eighth planet using a set of co-ordinates passed to him by the French astronomer Urbain Jean Le Verrier.
So forget about any idea of a Martian invasion# NEPTUNE NEPTUNE, the eighth planet, was discovered by English astronomer John Couch Adams in 1846.