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Neptune

in Roman mythology, the fabled god of the sea; the son of Saturn and Rhea, and the brother of Jupiter and Pluto. He is generally with the Greek Poseidon, and is vari- and Pluto. He is generally identified ously represented; sometimes with a trident in his right hand, a dolphin in his left, and with one of his feet resting on part of a ship; at others in a chariot drawn by sea-horses, with a triton on each side. He was said to preside over horses and the manger.

In astronomy, a planet, the most remote of any yet discovered. The diameter of Neptune is nearly 35,000 miles NERVA

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