Planet Uranus

Miranda - the smallest of Uranus' five major moons - was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16th Feb 1948 at the McDonald Observatory.

Uranus was named after the ancient Greek god of the sky. When it was discovered in 1781, astronomer William Herschel chose this name to follow the tradition of naming new planets after mythological deities.

William Hershel named it Georgium Sidus (George's Star), or the "Georgian Planet" (after King George lll), in March 1781. This was not a popular name outside Great Britain and many other names were proposed and used.

The name Uranus was proposed by Johann Elert Bode, a German astronomer who had determined the orbit of the plant after Herschel demonstrated that it WAS a planet. Bode's suggestion became the most widely used, and became universal in 1850

Bode's rational was that, as Saturn was the father of Jupiter in ancient mythology, the new planet. which was further for the sun than Saturn should be named for the mythological father of Saturn, Uranus.

Uranus is so cold because it is very far from the Sun, receiving much less sunlight than planets closer to the Sun. Additionally, its atmosphere is composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, which do not retain heat well. The extreme tilt of Uranus also causes its poles to be colder as they receive less direct sunlight.

The colors of the 13 rings on Uranus is gray and the color of ice,( blue ). The reason why they came up to that color is that astronomers believed that their was a moon that broke apart because of the fact that the gravity on Uranus was strong, so part of the moon broke in a fourth of it and there came upon those pieces of rocks and later formed with hydrogen, ammonia, volatiles and other things. The rocks soon made a push away from the gravity of Uranus and ended up turning into rings which seemed iced, but around 1970, the astronomers saw the rings which was gray rocks formed into a solid ring.

Uranus' moon Miranda has a greater variety of surface features compared to its size, including cliffs, canyons, and strange, chaotic terrain. These diverse features suggest a complex geological history involving tectonic and volcanic processes that have reshaped the moon's surface over time.

1. One of the many odd facts about Uranus is that it is "laying on its side" as it faces the Sun. Earth faces the sun standing almost straight up, with the north and south poles at the top and bottom. Uranus, however, has its south pole is facing the Sun. Scientists don't know why the planet is like this, but it may be the result of a collision with some other body in space.
2. Also, the planet rotates, or spins, from east to west which is the exact opposite of the way that Earth spins.

Uranus is over 4 times bigger than Earth in diameter, in mass over 14 times bigger, and volume over 63 times bigger than Earth.

Data comes from NASA. See related links.

Mass of Earth is 5.97 x 10^24 kg.
Mass of Uranus is 86.8 x 10^24 kg.
Diameter of Earth is 12,756 kilometers.
Diameter of Uranus is 51,118 kilometers.

Saturn was the outermost planet known until William Herschel discovered Uranus in the late 18th Century, so unless you count this as ancient, it would be inaccurate to say that the ancients could 'see' the planets beyond Saturn.

Telescopes are first definitely attested in the early 17th Century. Photography in the modern sense (using a camera to record sharp images on a light-sensitive film, as opposed to more basic forms like the pinhole camera) didn't exist until the early 19th Century.

I'm guessing that your question arises from the (quite sensible) assumption that all of the planets were named by the ancients, but this is not the case. The 'trans-Saturnian' (if you'll pardon the term) planets were named after Greek and Roman deities by later astronomers.

Interestingly, Uranus and Pluto are named after Greek gods, rather than the Roman gods that give the other planets their names. I suppose that 'Caelus' and 'Dis Pater' didn't quite have the same ring to them.

Hope this helps.

Uranus is often referred to as the "ice giant" because of its composition and extremely cold temperatures in its outer atmosphere.

i think if we go to the uranus we can see all other planet, which are around the uranus. we can also see galaxies, nebula, black hole, telescope and some rocks which are flying all around the planets.

Uranus is a gas giant (or "ice giant"). The general consensus is that they don't actually have surfaces per se; the gases making up their atmosphere likely merge imperceptibly with the liquid interior (there may, or may not, be a more solid "metal" core... to an astronomer, "metal" means "anything other than hydrogen or helium").

Uranus has a thick atmosphere composed mostly of hydrogen, helium, and methane gases. The upper atmosphere is made up of layers of clouds, while the lower atmosphere is mostly a mix of gases including hydrogen and helium. The atmosphere of Uranus also contains trace amounts of various hydrocarbons.

The planet is named for the primal Greek sky god Uranus (Ouranos), father of Cronus and grandfather of Zeus.

Mercury is an airless world that can be as hot as 800 Fahrenheit degrees during the day and as cold as -280 degrees at night. There is nothing to protect the surface from intense solar radiation.

Uranus is an extremely cold with no solid surface that we could live on.

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Uranus spin is different from all the other planets. Instead of spinning like a top, it spins like a wheel. Its north and south poles stick out to the side. Scientists think Uranus spins this way because a long time ago a large object collided with Uranus and knocked it over.

You would be killed if you were to try and land on Uranus. It is a giant, poisonous planet that is extremely cold, because it is so far from the Sun. The gravity is strong enough to crush any person or machine that tried to land on Uranus. The only thing a person can do in the vicinity of Uranus is to orbit the planet, or land on a nearby satellite or moon of Uranus. If you try to land the planet, you die and quickly.

Your weight on Uranus would be slightly different from your weight on Earth due to differences in gravity. Uranus has a surface gravity that is about 91% of Earth's gravity, so if you weighed 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh approximately 91 pounds on Uranus.

The time of rotation (day) for Uranus is about 17 hours and 14 minutes. The time for one revolution around the Sun (Uranus year) is 30,799 Earth days or about 84.3 Earth years.
Uranus's revolution is 87 earth years

The distance from Earth to Uranus varies due to the elliptical nature of the planets' orbits. On average, Uranus is about 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) away from Earth. At its closest approach, the distance can be around 1.6 billion miles (2.57 billion kilometers), while at its farthest, it can be around 1.98 billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) away.

Diameter = 50,530 km

Mass = 8.68*1025 kilograms

Volume = 6.83*1011 km3

Uranus is in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Everything you can see in the sky at night without a telescope, all the planets and stars are all in our galaxy.