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Voyager 2 took 12 years to get to Neptune and it got there via gravity assist also known as the slingshot effect. It went past the orbit of mars onward to Jupiter, using its massive gravity to deflect the space craft towards Saturn. It used Saturn's gravitational pull to deflect itself towards Uranus and did the same thing with Uranus's gravity. Eventually it arrived at Neptune's orbit. It would probably take longer nowadays to do the same thing, because rockets are not built as efficiently as they were back then to get to where they wanted to go.

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