Neptune's rotation & orbit
- 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).