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According to the second and third Vatican Mythographer, Neptune's trident symbolizes the three properties of water: liquidity, fecundity and drinkability. [12]The trident of Neptune was viewed by Roman scholar Maurus Servius Honoratus as three-pronged because "the sea is said to be a third part of the world, or because there are three kinds of water: seas, streams and rivers".
Trident of Poseidon. A trident (/ ˈ t r aɪ d ɛ n t /), (/ ˈ t r aɪ d ɪ n t /) is a three-pronged spear.It is used for spear fishing and historically as a polearm.As compared to an ordinary spear, the three tines increase the chance that a fish will be struck and decrease the chance that a fish will be able to dislodge itself if struck badly.
Being composed primarily of gases and liquids, [21] it has no well-defined solid surface, and orbits the Sun once every 164.8 years at an orbital distance of 30.1 astronomical units (4.5 billion kilometres; 2.8 billion miles). It is named after the Roman god of the sea and has the astronomical symbol, representing Neptune's trident. [e]
(Immediately beside him, Neptune is shown with a trident. Some writers have confused the two figures; Neptune's identity is confirmed by his embrace of the Hippocamp – the "sea horse" with fins for forelegs, and whose markings appear to repeat the trident in a stylized, perhaps symbolic, form.)
Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus [nɛpˈtuːnʊs]) is the god of freshwater and the sea in the Roman religion. [1] He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. [2] In the Greek-inspired tradition, he is a brother of Jupiter and Pluto, with whom he presides over the realms of heaven, the earthly world (including the underworld), and the seas. [3]
NASA illustration detailing the studies of the proposed Trident mission Neptune (top) and Triton (bottom) three days after flyby of Voyager 2. The orbital properties of Triton were already determined with high accuracy in the 19th century. It was found to have a retrograde orbit, at a very high angle of inclination to the plane of Neptune's orbit.
After Neptune was discovered, the Bureau des Longitudes proposed the name Neptune and the familiar trident for the planet's symbol, though at bottom may be either a cross or an orb . [10] Pluto, like Uranus, has multiple symbols in use.
An NIAC study of a mission to Neptune with the goal of landing, and flying from site to site, on Neptune's moon Triton. proposed [18] Trident: NASA: flyby A finalist in the Discovery program, would perform a single flyby of Neptune in 2038 and closely study its largest moon Triton. [19]