neptune

One of the coolest things for me as a kid was realizing that Pluto and Neptune switch places.

Wonder if there would have been any way to use Neptune to slow the probe?

Uranus and Neptune are basically unstudied up close, compared to all the other planets.

Earth would also fall under same criteria if it was further than neptune...

Which includes things like making increasing use of advanced propulsion (ion engines, plasma propulsion, etc.) which would enable things like a Neptune orbiter or what-have-you.

Both Uranus and Neptune have been visited only by Voyager 2.

For instance the voices of Neptune and noire in the current gen of hyperdimensional neptunia are better in the English than Japanese in my opinion.

Or the gravitational affects of Neptune and Pluto's orbital resonance?

A Hohmann transfer even to Neptune is 40 years.

Also, the search for Pluto was motivated by some apparent irregularities in Uranus's orbit, similar to the ones that led to the discovery of Neptune almost a century earlier.

> Could it have been subjected to large tidal forces relatively recently I think it has to have been a moon of Neptune for that to have any major effect.

Fortunately I didn't spend 16 months at it, since we were paying long distance charges and just a couple of pictures of Neptune downloaded over the course of an hour or so cost a relatively ridiculous amount of money.

Considering the definition of a plutoid is effectively "a planet further away than neptune", I'm inclined to shun the plutoists and agree with him.

Try to dig up the full "Encounter with Neptune".

I guess the parameters were chosen by some curve fitting procedure to make sure it gives 1.0 for Earth, 0.7-ish for Mars, 0.2 for Uranus and Neptune which are basically the most "not like the others" in our solar system and so on.

Being a hack is bigger screw-up than accidentally (or through negligence) firing someone's VM into Neptune, that's all.

Neptune, for instance, is also a fascinating system, especially as someone working on modeling planetary rings.

Actually it'd be more like a small Neptune/Uranus than a large Earth.