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Neptune
Feb. 17 Triple-deck ferry capsized off southern peninsula of Haiti during a squall. Over 1,000 passengers believed drowned. About 300 survived the sinking.

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The moon is called Triton and circles Neptune in a retrograde orbit. Triton's diameter 2700 km - Pluto's diameter of 2300 km. Jupiter, Earth and Saturn also have moons larger than Pluto.

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Saturn is the second largest planet. Uranus is third and Neptune is fourth.

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Neptune was the first planet to be discovered by using mathematics. After the discovery of Uranus in 1781, astronomers noticed that the planet was being pulled slightly out of its normal orbit. John Couch Adams of Britain and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier of France, used mathematics to predict that the gravity from another planet beyond Uranus was affecting the orbit of Uranus. Johann Gottfried Galle searched for the predicted planet and observed Neptune for the first time in 1846.

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