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Neptune


1993 Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)

1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Moon

1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps

1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune

1989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered

1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune

1989 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune

1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24

1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)

1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

1968 Mike Lee, born in Neptune, New Jersey, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 Tommy Armour Tour

1949 Arthur Lee Washington, Jr., Neptune, New Jersey, murderer, FBI Most Wanted

1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)

1944 Danny DeVito, Neptune, New Jersey, actor, Taxi, Ruthless People, Twins

1944 Danny DeVito, born in Neptune, New Jersey, actor, Louie-Taxi, Twins

1935 Russell Luis Schweickart, Neptune, New Jersey, astronaut, Apollo 9

1910 Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies

1905 Gerard Kuiper, Dutch/U.S. astronomer, moons of Uranus, Neptune

1892 John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies

1880 William Lassell, English astronomer (1st moon of Neptune), dies

1877 Urbain JJ Leverrier, codiscoverer of Neptune, dies

1847 Urbain J J Leverrier and John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel

1846 Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell

1846 Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune

1819 John Couch Adams, English astronomer, co-discover Neptune

1812 Johann G Galle, German astronomer, discovered Neptune.

1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discoverer, Neptune

1799 William Lassell, discoverer, satellites of Uranus and Neptune

1613 Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees

1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune


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