Planet Profile Distance From Sun: 2,788,000,000 miles Diameter: 30,200 miles Average Temperature: -360 F Average Day: approximately 16 hours Average Year: approximately 165 earth years Number of Moons (Satellites): 2

Neptune is the third largest planet in our Solar System and is the Eighth planet from the sun. Neptune is one of the two planets that cannot be seen without a telescope. Neptune's satellites are named: Triton and Nereid. Neptune was named after the Roman god of the sea.

 

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Did you know that every 238 years Pluto and Neptune switch places making Neptune the farthest planet from the Sun?