Neptune has a diameter of about 49,244 kilometers, making it the fourth-largest planet in our solar system. It has a radius of approximately 24,622 kilometers. The average distance from Neptune to the Sun is about 4.5 billion kilometers, or 30 astronomical units.
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Neptune has a diameter of about 49,528 kilometers (30,775 miles) and is approximately 17 times the mass of Earth. It is the fourth-largest planet in our solar system by diameter and the third-largest by mass.
Its mean radius is 24622 km so that its volume is approx 62.5 trillion cubic kilometres.
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Neptune is very similar in size and color to its gas giant neighbor, Uranus. Both planets are composed mostly of hydrogen, helium, and methane, giving them a bluish appearance. They also both have similar dimensions, with Neptune being slightly smaller in mass and diameter compared to Uranus.
King Neptune's full name is King Neptune IX.
The rotation of the planet Neptune is much faster than Earth's. It completes a rotational "day" in about 16 Earth hours. So in an Earth year (365.25 Earth days), Neptune completes about 544 Neptune days. In a Neptune year, there are about 89,666 Neptune days.
Neptune is named after Neptune, the Roman god of water and the sea, the brother of Jupiter and Pluto. Neptune's equivalent in Greek mythology is Poseidon. Neptune was named after a sea god because the planet looked like a big blue ocean.