A Quote by Mike Brown

Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

Mike Brown

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Bully Controls Neighborhood Neptune Orbit Pluto

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Mike Brown
Mixed martial artist
Born: September 8, 1975

If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.

Alan Stern

You speak horse?" Hazel asked. "Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mean a Neptune thing." "Then you and Arion should get along fine," Hazel said. "He's a son of Neptune too." Percy turned pale. "Excuse me?

Rick Riordan

Every type of ring behavior we have seen around Jupiter, Uranus, or Neptune can be found in orbit around Saturn. And Saturn's ring system offers the greatest promise of understanding processes in operation within all disk systems, not just those found around planets.

Carolyn Porco

The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.

Antoine-Marin Lemierre

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

Jean Racine

He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

Publilius Syrus

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Thomas Fuller

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

Publilius Syrus

If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

Alan Stern

We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989.

Heidi Hammel

What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus.

Heidi Hammel

Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.