| Neptune (neptune) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Nep"tune |
| [L. Neptunus.] |
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.
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 2,775,000,000 miles, and its
period of revolution is about 164,78 years.
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