the son of saturn and ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea.  he is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.-the remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of leverrier, of paris -- by galle, of berlin, september 23, 1846. its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.