Neptun

The discovery of the Neptun in the year 1846 was one of the largest triumphs of the natural science in 19. Century. The Neptun was predicted by the English astronomer of Adam and the Frenchman Leverrier. Both had found that the Uranus does not move in such a way around the sun, as it should have done it after the computations. Logically they closed Neptun on the existence of a further planet, which disturbed the Uranus with its attraction, and computed from the deviations its place actual in the before-computed place were found exact. By August 1989, when the space probe Voyager 11 reached the Neptun, one knew very few about this planets. The photographs of the space probes revealed the Neptun surprisingly as a very active planet, substantially more actively than the Uranus, with many eddies and enormous cloud volumes in its atmosphere. Also Neptun is like Ura nus the Jupiter similar the planet, consists thus predominantly of gas.

August Keller

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