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Neptune – Tautenburg Planet Trail

Neptune – Tautenburg Planet Trail

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Neptune – Tautenburg Planet Trail

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Location: Tautenburg, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany

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1. Ascent to Tautenburg Castle Tower loop from Tautenburg

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2. Alpine trail from Zietschkuppe – Ruins of Tautenburg Castle loop from Löberschütz

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3. Ruins of Tautenburg Castle – Alpine trail from Zietschkuppe loop from Graitschen

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290m

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Anke Duderstadt

April 12, 2024

Interesting information about the objects in space is available on specially erected steles

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Hiker’s Guide through the Galaxy

May 2, 2023

Neptune - Station 12 of the Tautenburg Planet Trail: komoot.de/tour/1092177603

Distance to the sun: 4,540 million km

The eighth and thus outermost planet of our sun is very similar to its neighbor Uranus. Neptune also consists almost exclusively of hydrogen and helium. It is the smallest of the four gas giants.
It was discovered based on calculations based on Uranus' orbital disturbances, but is the only planet that cannot be seen with the naked eye from Earth.

Diameter: 49,244 km - almost 4 times the earth
Weight: more than 17 times that of Earth

As on Earth, the tilt of the planet's axis causes a change in solar radiation during an orbit and thus leads to seasons.
However, in contrast to our home planet, these last more than 40 years. Remarkable weather phenomena were also discovered on Neptune, e.g. B. Dynamic storms with peak speeds of up to 2,100 km/h, the strongest winds in the solar system.

Temperature: -400°F (-218°C).

In the extremely cold atmosphere of the ice giant, the cirrus clouds are composed of frozen methane rather than water ice crystals like on Earth.

Neptune has the highest density of the four giants, making it the most compact gas planet. Due to its relatively large mass, it influences the orbits of many smaller bodies in the outer region of the solar system, which are therefore also called trans-Neptunian objects.

Duration of one solar orbit: almost 165 years
Rotation duration: 15 hours and 58 minutes
Orbital speed: 5.4 km/s

Small bodies and dust also form a thin ring system around Neptune. On the largest moon, Triton, there are so-called cryovolcanoes, which do not spit out lava like on Earth, but rather ammonia and water vapour, and are therefore more similar to geysers on Earth. But while the eruptions of the famous Strokkur in Iceland "only" shoot up 30 m, those on Triton reach a height of up to 8 km!

Number of moons: 14

Now it goes to the edge of the solar system to the dwarf planets - komoot.de/highlight/5673893

This stage would be 1,411.4 million km in space; here, however, a distance of only 1,411.4 m.

Further information: © tautenburg.de/tpp/Neptun/index.htm

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Frank_S.

October 22, 2024

The TPP, with its educational, interesting and attractively designed displays, informs readers with extensive content and details about our solar system and space in general!

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Location: Tautenburg, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany

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Neptune – Tautenburg Planet Trail

1. Ascent to Tautenburg Castle Tower loop from Tautenburg

2. Alpine trail from Zietschkuppe – Ruins of Tautenburg Castle loop from Löberschütz

3. Ruins of Tautenburg Castle – Alpine trail from Zietschkuppe loop from Graitschen

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