Rather, most TNOs have trajectories that keep them relatively close enough to Neptune for extended periods of time such that they can be controlled by the ice giant's gravity. The team ...

NASA has found something on Uranus and Neptune. The ice giants of the solar system have long been enigmas for science.

And we measure this in multiples of the strength of Earth's gravity, known as 1G. The first planet I'm travelling to is Neptune. Its gravity is just fractionally stronger than here on Earth.

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A flight launched into a proper trajectory on Nov. 1, 1979, would be picked up by Jupiter’s gravity and hurled to Neptune — like a skater at the end of a crack-the-whip line — in only 8.1 years.