NEPTUNE RISING.

From: Discover | Date: September 1, 2000| Author: RIST, CURTIS | Copyright information

ONCE A FUZZY NOBODY, NEPTUNE COMES OF AGE AS A KEY PLAYER IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. BESIDES, WHO CAN IGNORE A PLANET WHERE IT RAINS DIAMONDS?

FOR CENTURIES, THE PLANETARY GIANTS--Jupiter with its distinctive red spot and Saturn with its massive rings--have been the most glamorous of the planets, while the outer orbs--Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto--have been viewed, when they've been viewable at all, as dim, remote, drab, and mysterious stepsisters. Then 11 yea...

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