Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Happy Anniversary, Neptune!


Today the planet Neptune completed its first orbit around the sun since it was first observed on September 23-24, 1846.



Voyager 2 photographed Neptune's two faint rings in 1989, from about 3,000 miles altitude.

Neatorama.

3 comments:

Old NFO said...

It's taken a while :-)

North said...

Sorry, NFO, but it took exactly a year.

:-P

Turk Turon said...

A Neptunian year.