Neptune's Column - Jacksonville, Florida
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macleod1
N 30° 15.220 W 081° 31.523
17R E 449457 N 3347011
This extraterrestrial statue is located in one of the newest areas of St. John's Town Center is located on the southside of Jacksonville near 9A and J. Turner Butler Blvd.The statue sits on the corner of River City Drive.
Waymark Code: WM45HY
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 07/10/2008
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This depiction of Neptune, the Roman god of the oceans, with his trident sits atop a column en swirled with architectural waves. The height of this is almost 25 feet.
The following info can be found:http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=1225
Neptune is slightly smaller than Uranus and has a diameter of 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers), so about 4 Earths would fit across its face.
Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun. It orbits at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion km), thirty times farther than Earth.
It takes 165 Earth years for Neptune to go around the Sun one time.
It takes Neptune only 16 Earth hours for it to spin on its axis once.
Like the other gas-giant planets, Neptune's "surface" is the top of its deep atmosphere. This contains hydrogen (79 percent), helium (18 percent), and methane (3 percent), which gives the planet its blue color. Neptune's atmosphere has a striped pattern like both Jupiter's and Saturn's.
The average temperature at Neptune is –370° F (–220° C).
Six narrow rings encircle Neptune. Because some places have more particles than others, Neptune's rings form arcs around the planet.
Johann Galle and Heinrich D'Arrest discovered Neptune in 1846.
Neptune has 13 moons, the two largest are Triton and Nereid. Triton is made of rock and ice. Its surface is rich in water ice, dry ice, frozen carbon monoxide, methane, and nitrogen. Triton has cold geysers that spit nitrogen instead of the hot water that geysers on Earth release.