Alexandra Palacios
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Neptune's rotation & orbit

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  • Neptune orbits around the sun in a average of 30.1AU.
  • More over, Neptune is about 4.5 billion kilometers (2.8 billions miles) from the sun.
  • Like all planets, Neptune has two types of motion, called orbit and spin.
  • Many persons know that it takes the Earth 365 1/4 days to revolve around the sun, but it takes Neptune 165 earth years to orbit the sun.
  • Neptune spins around it's axis in about 16 hours.
  • On July 11, 2011, Neptune completed it's first full barycentric orbit.
  • The axial titt of Neptune is 28.32 degrece wich is similar to the titls of earth (23 degrece) and Mars (25 degrece).
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