Neptune

The well known planet named after the greek god neptune is one of the big gas giants! It's the size of 60 earths. Neptune is the eighth planet away from the sun. A day on neptune is sixteen hours and six point seven minutes.Has 8 moons.The distance from the sun is 4,498.25 million km.It's orbit period 164.79 earth days. Did you know that neptune can have storms on it.The reason why neptune is blue is because of the gas methane,it asorbs red light and reflects blue. It was first discovered in the 18th centery on 1846 Septemeber 23, by Galle and d'Arrest. Galileo also observed this wonderful planet.

In 1989 the frist spaceshuttle visited neptune.

1208898046

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Neptune.jpg    this is a picture of neptune!!