Neptune

(noun.) a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; 'the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846'.

(noun.) (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon.

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• His labors, however, were interrupt ed by the death of his assistant Flemming, and by his own illness, which proved fatal in 1846, a few months before the actual discovery of Neptune. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• When Lalande's records in Paris were studied, it was found that he had made two observations of Neptune on May 8 and 10. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• They were changes an immortal astronomer in Neptune, watching the earth from age to age, would have found almost imperceptible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• No matter how staunch, sound and grand in dimensions man may build his ships, old Neptune can still toss them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Can it be Neptune? 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Arago named the new planet after the French discoverer, but soon acquiesced in the name Neptune, which has since prevailed. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• In the succeeding year he built other boats, the _Rariton_, to run from New York to New Brunswick, and _The Car of Neptune_ as a second Hudson River boat. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In Feb ruar y of that year he had found (as had Petersen of Altona about the same time) that Lalande had in May, 1795, observed Neptune and mistaken it for a fixed star. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Neptune's orbit is more nearly circular than that of any of the major planets except Venus. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Walker, of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, was able to determine the elements of the orbit of Neptune accurately in 1847. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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