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Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun in the Solar System, and was named for the Roman god of the sea (equivalent to the Greek Poseidon). The name was originally proposed by Urbain Le Verrier, a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics who was one of those who first identified Neptune as a planet.

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