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Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times...

is the eighth planet from the sun in our solar system.

Neptune may also refer to:
  • Neptune (mythology)
    Neptune (mythology)
    Neptune was the god of water and the sea in Roman mythology and religion. He is analogous with, but not identical to, the Greek god Poseidon. In the Greek-influenced tradition, Neptune was the brother of Jupiter and Pluto, each of them presiding over one of the three realms of the universe,...

    , a god in Roman mythology

Places

United States
  • Neptune, Wisconsin
    Neptune, Wisconsin
    Neptune is an unincorporated community in the town of Ithaca, Richland County, Wisconsin, United States....

  • Neptune Township, New Jersey
    Neptune Township, New Jersey
    -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 27,690 people, 10,907 households, and 6,805 families residing in the township. The population density was 3,366.8 people per square mile . There were 12,217 housing units at an average density of 1,485.4 per square mile...

  • Neptune City, New Jersey
    Neptune City, New Jersey
    Neptune City is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 4,869.The Borough of Neptune City was incorporated on October 4, 1881, based on a referendum held on March 19, 1881...


Antarctica
  • Neptune Range
    Neptune Range
    The Neptune Range is a mountain range, long, lying WSW of Forrestal Range in the central part of the Pensacola Mountains in Antarctica. The range is composed of Washington Escarpment with its associated ridges, valleys and peaks, the Iroquois Plateau, and the Schmidt and Williams Hills...

    , a mountain range

United Kingdom
  • Neptune Theatre
    Neptune Theatre
    The Neptune Theatre, built in 1913, is one of many theatres in Liverpool, England. It has been threatened with closure several times, and is currently not in use. The theatre seats 445 on its two levels.-History:...

    , a theatre in Liverpool

Canada
  • Neptune Theatre (Halifax)
    Neptune Theatre (Halifax)
    The Neptune Theatre is the largest professional theatre company in Atlantic Canada with a capacity of 497 and is located in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It performs a mixture of new and classical plays....

    , a theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Music

  • Neptune (band)
    Neptune (band)
    Neptune is a noise music band from Boston, noted for having built their custom-made guitars and basses out of scrap metal. The band also plays custom-made percussion instruments and electric lamellophones.-Band history:...

    , a band from Boston
  • Neptune (Italian band)
    Neptune (Italian band)
    Neptune is an Italian melodic death metal band from Verona, that was founded in 1999. Their influences are based upon melodic death metal acts such as; Hatesphere, In Flames, Soilwork, Dark Tranquillity, Disarmonia Mundi, At the Gates and The Haunted....

    , a band from Verona, Italy
  • Neptune (The Duke Spirit album)
  • Neptune (Northern Pikes album)
    Neptune (Northern Pikes album)
    Neptune is the fourth album by The Northern Pikes released in 1992. This was the band's last studio album until they reformed in 1999.Although "Twister" and "Everything" were released as proper singles, with "Twister becoming a moderate hit. The song "Believe" was released as a promotional single,...

  • The Neptunes
    The Neptunes
    The Neptunes are a record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, who are credited with contributing the sound for many successful hip hop, R&B and pop artists in the late-1990s and 2000s...

    , a group of hip-hop producers
  • Neptune Records
    Neptune Records
    Neptune Records was a record label founded by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff in 1969. They featured artists such as The O'Jays, The Three Degrees and Billy Paul....

    , a record label
  • "Neptune, the Mystic", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets
    The Planets
    The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst...

    suite

Vehicles

  • Neptune (ship)
    Neptune (ship)
    Neptune was one of the notorious Second Fleet ships to Port Jackson. Built in the River Thames in 1779, at 809 tons she was the largest ship of the fleet. In company with Surprize and Scarborough she sailed from England with 421 male and 78 female convicts on 19 January 1790. Her master was...

    , a convict ship in Second Fleet, to New South Wales
  • HMS Neptune
    HMS Neptune
    Nine ships and a naval base of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Neptune after the Roman god of the ocean: was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1683. She was rebuilt in 1710 and 1730 before being renamed HMS Torbay in her new incarnation as a third rate in 1750. She was sold in 1784. was a...

    , several ships of the British Royal Navy
  • USS Neptune
    USS Neptune
    USS Neptune has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:*USS Clyde , a 294-ton side-wheel steam gunboat, was briefly named Neptune when first commissioned...

    , several ships of the United States Navy
  • Lockheed P-2 Neptune, a naval patrol bomber and anti-submarine warfare aircraft
  • French ship Neptune
    French ship Neptune
    Neptune was a Bucentaure-class 80-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Built during the last years of the French Revolutionary Wars she was launched at the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars...

  • Spanish ship Neptuno
    Spanish ship Neptuno
    At least six ships of the Spanish Navy have been named Neptuno:*Neptuno was an 66-gun ship of the line Acquired in 1740 and sold in 1748...

  • CS Neptune, a Confederate Army tugboat
  • Beriev Be-2500 or Neptune, a super-heavy amphibian cargo aircraft
  • ST Nettuno, a tugboat later renamed Nettuno Sailem
  • SS Neptune, a ship purchased by George Law
    George Law (financier)
    George Law an American financier, b. in Jackson, Washington Co., N.Y., 25 October 1806; d. in New York city, 18 November 1881.- Early life :George Law was born in Jackson, New York and his only early education had been obtained in a winter night school. At age of eighteen he left his father's farm...

     in 1843

Fiction

  • Neptune, the main character in the video game Hyperdimension Neptunia
  • Neptune, California, the setting for Veronica Mars
  • Neptune (Marvel Comics)
    Neptune (Marvel Comics)
    Neptune, also called Poseidon, is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.Neptune is the god of the sea in the Olympian pantheon, and the patron god of Atlantis.-Fictional character biography:...

    , a Marvel Comics character
  • Sailor Neptune or Michiru Kaioh, a character in the Sailor Moon franchise
  • Neptune, a midget submarine in For Your Eyes Only
    For Your Eyes Only (film)
    For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond series and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It marked the directorial debut of John Glen, who had worked as editor and second unit director in three other Bond films. The screenplay by Richard Maibaum...

  • King Neptune, a minor character in the SpongeBob SquarePants series
  • Neptune, a shark-like enemy in Resident Evil

Computing

  • Hyperdimension Neptunia, formerly known as Neptune, a 2010 role-playing game published by Sega for the PlayStation 3
  • Neptune chipset was the code name for the Intel Pentium
    P5 (microarchitecture)
    The original Pentium microprocessor was introduced on March 22, 1993. Its microarchitecture, deemed P5, was Intel's fifth-generation and first superscalar x86 microarchitecture. As a direct extension of the 80486 architecture, it included dual integer pipelines, a faster FPU, wider data bus,...

     430NX chip set.
  • Neptune (computer game), an Apple II game by Nasir Gebelli
    Nasir Gebelli
    Nasir Gebelli is an Iranian-American programmer and video game developer. Gebelli co-founded Sirius Software, created his own company Gebelli Software, and worked for Square .-Sirius Software:...

  • Sega Neptune, a planned Sega console which was never produced
  • Sun Neptune
    Sun Neptune
    Neptune, also known as Sun Multithreaded 10 GbE, is a dual 10 Gbit/s, multithreaded, PCIe x8-based network card. It was developed and originally produced by Sun Microsystems, and later licensed to Marvell....

    , a Sun 10 Gbit/s network interface card
  • Windows Neptune
    Windows Neptune
    Neptune was the codename for a version of the Windows operating system that was under development by Microsoft during 1999. It was based on Windows 2000 and was scheduled to be the first consumer version of Windows to be built on NT code, to replace the Windows 9x series.In early 2000, Microsoft...

    , an unreleased version of Microsoft Windows

Companies

  • Neptune Films
    Neptune Films
    Neptune Films is a small production company started in Portland, Oregon, United States, that makes narrative and experimental short films & music videos. It is owned and operated by Portland native Christopher Lloyd Cooley.-Distribution:The company is known for their D.I.Y...

    , a film production/distribution company in Los Angeles CA & Portland OR
  • Neptune Distribution
    Neptune Distribution
    Neptune Distribution was a comic distribution company established in Leicester in 1986. It was set up to challenge Titan Distribution's monopoly on the UK comic distribution business....

    , a comic distribution company from Leicester
  • Neptune investment management
    Neptune investment management
    Neptune Investment Management is a UK fund management company founded in May 2002 and based in Hammersmith, London. Neptune focuses exclusively on fund management and offers a range of collective investment schemes principally investing in equities. These schemes include OEICs, Unit Trusts and a...

    , a British fund management company
  • Neptune Technologies
    Neptune Technologies
    Neptune Technologies is an industrial investor based in Paris, with a history of creating and acquiring innovative technology companies and fostering worldwide development of their activities for the long term....

    , industrial investor

Other uses

  • NEPTUNE
    NEPTUNE
    The NEPTUNE Canada project is the world’s first regional-scale underwater ocean observatory that plugs directly into the Internet. Since December 2009, it has allowed people to "surf" the seafloor while ocean scientists run deep-water experiments from labs and universities around the world. Along...

    , an underwater observatory
  • Neptune Cable
    Neptune Cable
    The Neptune Cable is a 500kV and 660 MW high-voltage direct current submarine power cable between Sayreville, New Jersey and Levittown, New York on Long Island. It carries 22 percent of Long Island's electricity....

    , a submarine HVDC cable in the New York area
  • Neptune (owarai)
    Neptune (Owarai)
    is a three-man Japanese conte group consisting of two boke, , and - usually referred to as , and one tsukkomi, . Their trio name comes from the Kinnikuman character, Neptuneman.-History:...

    , a three-man Japanese comedy group
  • King Neptune (pig)
    King Neptune (pig)
    King Neptune was a pig used by a United States Navy recruiter to raise $19 million in war bonds for the construction of the between 1942 and 1946.-Origins:...

     (1942–1950), a pig that was used to raise $19 million in war bonds during World War II
  • Eggs Neptune
    Eggs Neptune
    Eggs Neptune is a layered breakfast/brunch dish consisting of a split English muffin, crab meat, poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce. It is a variation of Eggs Benedict with crab meat replacing Canadian bacon.-External links:*...

    , a layered breakfast/brunch food
  • WEKhilpurnil or Neptune, a hybrid Tea rose

See also

  • Eighth planet (disambiguation)
  • Operation Neptune (disambiguation)
    Operation Neptune (disambiguation)
    Operation Neptune was the Allied Invasion of Normandy during World War II.Operation Neptune may also refer to:*Operation Neptune - the Soviet disinformation program in 1964*Operation Neptune - A computer game...

  • Neptun (disambiguation)
  • Neptune City (album)
    Neptune City (album)
    Neptune City was generally well-received by most music critics. Katherine Fulton of Allmusic noticed that "Atkins shows on this album that she has both the capability and potential" and praised the "lush arrangements on Neptune City, which [...] showcase the depth, range, and versatility of Atkins'...

    , an album by Nicole Atkins
  • King Neptune (disambiguation)
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