Uranus - what an unfortunate & silly name
If you haven't thought about it lately, ask your son or daughter's fifth grade teacher whether kids love the name.
Uranus has much more in common with Jupiter than it does with the Earth
It's covered with gases and even reflects an ethereal blue glow.
It takes Uranus 82 years to orbit once around the sun.
Since it takes so long to orbit around the sun seasons are long…one season lasts over 20 years!
Uranus has 20 moons.
In its 82-year orbit around the sun, Uranus travels sideways.
Many astronomers speculate that Uranus may have collided with a large celestial body at some point - which knocked the planet sideways for all eternity.
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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus () the father of Kronos (Saturn) and grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter). Though it is visible to the naked eye like the five classical planets, it was never recognized as a planet by ancient observers because of its dimness and slow orbit. Sir William Herschel announced its discovery on March 13, 1781, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in modern history....
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