Neptune

The Kuiper Belt is what contains most of the asteroids, comets, and other floating rocks scientist see today. The Kuiper Belt is a solar system that exists far out of Neptune's orbit. Kuiper Belt also has another name, that is Edgeworth. The Edgeworth, or the Kuiper Belt, is home to three officially recognized dwarf planet we know today. Those three planets are Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Although, Pluto is the most common, it really shows the possibilities this Belt could contain other…

According to the Nice theory, The Kuiper belt lies out past the orbit of Pluto. Instead of asteroids, The Kuiper belt has millions of icy comets that circle the Sun very fast, and because of that fast motion, they were flung outward by encounters with the giant planets. Scientist believe that the comet Pluto is a part of the Kuiper belt. The Oort cloud is not really a cloud, but a mass of a over a trillion comets that circle the Sun at a great distance. In fact, the Oort cloud extends over…

Neptune is one of the four large planets in our Solar System known as Gas Giants. It is the eighth planet in order from the Sun, and was seen through a telescope for the first time on the 23rd of September 1846. Keeping to the traditional naming system used for all the previous planets, Neptune was given its name based on the Roman god of the sea, in reference to Greek and Roman mythology. General Information: Neptune has a vivid blue colouration to its layer of cloud cover. Higher…

“Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto” by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was painted in 1597 ,with oils on a plaster canvas. The painting show three men, in a dark night sky around the moon. The main background of the painting is a night sky with clouds in the background and a large moon in the center of the painting. The foreground of the painting is three men in the sky. The man at the top of the painting is nude with a white robe around him. He is sitting on a bird with his face covered by his legs.…

Neptune Neptune is very complex and there are many different aspects about Neptune's History. Neptune may be dark and lifeless, but the mystery is what give Neptune its features. Neptune also was named after the roman god of the sea. Many think Neptune is small when looking at it from a radar, but when investigating Neptune, the planet could hold about 64 Earths if were hollow. Theories about how Neptune was created still is left to be investigated. When and How Neptune was Discovered The…

happy couple, Neptune and Uranus. The two were the happiest of planets, they did everything together. Uranus and Neptune were inseparable. The two had similar day lengths, so all the other planets called them perfect. Every morning they were the first thing each other saw. The two had met 2 billion years ago, and since then they have been together. Uranus, is an icy planet, that easily gets mad, Neptune is a smaller rocky planet, that was super sweet. Everyone in the galaxy loved Neptune, they…

Book Report The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan The book is 512 pages. Fiction Adventure, Legends and Myths, Fables, Folk Tales and Myths, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Young Adult. I give this book four stars, because the greek mythology interests me alot. It could be from my greek background. The first book in this series was delightful and I actually enjoyed reading it so I thought I would continue the series. The book is difficult at times. The frequent change between characters…

concept the poem is presenting is that almost everything is partially right, and that there are several ways everything can be interpreted. The poem begins with seven olives being arranged on a tabletop by Galileo. The poem continues, “Seven, because Neptune had to be a star, /and Pluto was nothing more than a speck / in the imagination.” (lines 4-6) which was later proven wrong. Galileo also believed that sun was the center of the universe; both of these beliefs he had were partially right. …

Poseidon, known as Neptune in Roman mythology was the Lord and ruler of the sea; the Mediterranean and the Friendly Sea (the Euxine, now the Black sea). He is one of the twelve Olympian deities of the pantheon in Greek mythology. Additionally he is referred to as “Earth Shaker” due to his role in causing earthquakes. Poseidon was the second son of titans Cronus and Rhea. In most accounts he is swallowed by Cronus at birth but is later saved, with his other brothers and sisters, by Zeus.…

Critic’s Review The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan follows the alternative POVs of Percy, Hazel, and Frank on a quest to save the god Thanatos from confinement. This fantasy and adventure novel is something I recommend to everyone because of the added humor, action, and the mix of Romand and Greek mythology. Although some of the events in this novel can not happen in real life, there are some issues the characters deal with personally that make them relatable. I believe that everyone has faced…