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</html>";s:4:"text";s:29430:"Uranus was first named George. Uranus is the only planet that is named after a Greek god. 3. The vessel collected valuable information about the planet and also took numerous photographs of the planet. The origin of the particles forming the rings might have been from one or a number of its moons shattered due to high-speed impact. It is about four times as wide as Earth. Further analysis of the celestial body, however, led to the calculation of the object’s orbit, a result that was contrary to the expected elliptical path of a comet. On Planet Uranus (that is, the time it takes for the earth to complete a single oration on its axis) a sidereal day is only around 17 hours long. Uranus Facts – 12 Interesting Facts about Uranus The Name Uranus is Over 2,500 Years Old. At... Uranus turns on its axis once every 17 hours, 14 minutes. You can’t see it with your eyes when you looked up at the night sky because it is so far away. Uranus is too dim for ancient civilizations to have seen it. Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun in our solar system. 1. The tilt of Uranus may have been caused by a collision. Planet Uranus facts The mean radius of Uranus is ~ 25,362 km (~ 3 times that of Earth). Uranus has a total of 27 moons, each of which is named after characters in the works of Alexander Pope, William Shakespeare. It is too dim to have been seen by the ancients. NASA/JPL. The seventh planet from out Sun, Uranus is … 12. There’s a high chance that the reason for Uranus’s lopsided spinning is the many collisions it has suffered. This means that maybe planets can be created by impact too. Wind speeds on giant planets can be as much as 15 times stronger than winds on Earth. What this means is, there’s probably not a lot of weather activity going on deeper into the giant planet of Uranus. If you look at near-infrared views of the planet, you’ll be able to see faint rings around the sphere. He initially concluded that he had stumbled upon a comet. A 3D rendering of Uranus. 1. He was the father of Saturn. But the sun is far away from Uranus, so the furnace in the core of Uranus probably plays a much larger role in keeping the planet warm. Traveling to planets such as Uranus, on the other hand, could mean that one has to wait a few decades for the ideal conditions. 2. Here are some Uranus facts for children. Near the core, it heats up to 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit (4,982 degrees Celsius). Several astronomers also confirmed his observations and led him to conclude that he had indeed discovered a new planet. Link/cite this page. By Benjamin Elisha Sawe on November 6 2019 in Environment. Facts about Uranus Uranus was officially discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781. The axial tilt of Uranus means that one of its poles is always facing the sun at any given point. 11. 15. The Earth, as we know, spins at an angle of 23 degrees. What amazes is the fact that Uranus does not generate any heat which is more than what it receives from the Sun. The old theory was that Uranus, Neptune, and the Saturn and Jupiter cores were created by pulling in small floating objects from space around it. Uranus is named after a Greek god, not Roman, like other planets. Both the planet you want to visit and the starting point are in constant motion, which means that a lot of effort has to go into the planning of such trips. Apart from it’s slightly odd and funny name, what else is there to know about this beautiful planet? Let’s go! It is the seventh planet from the Sun (Order of the planets from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (the dwarf planet)). Methane makes it aquamarine or cyan in color. The radioactive element uranium was named after Uranus when it was discovered in 1789, just eight years after the planet was discovered.Kid-Friendly UranusResources The planet’s density only comes second after Saturn, which has a density of 0.0248lbs/in3. The exploration of Uranus has been solely through telescopes and the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, with no other... 2. He further observed that the body was circular. Scientists also believe that oceans of liquid water may exist at the mantle-core boundary of both Oberon and Titania. Cold, windy Uranus looks like a planet on its side. Random Fact 1: Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun! After the discovery, Herschel suggested Georgium Sidus (meaning Georgian Planet in Latin) for its name to honor King George III. All Rights Reserved. Uranus is a giant planet. Unlike the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, which are mostly made up of... Uranus has the coldest temperature of … It has an equatorial diameter of 51,000 km and a polar diameter of 49,900 km. The color of Uranus is blue due to the fact that it has an atmosphere made up of water, ammonia, and methane. 11 Fun Facts About Uranus For Kids Jack Bennett January 16, 2019 Blog No Comments Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun, and wasn’t discovered until 1781 with the help of telescopes, as it was too dim to have been spotted by ancient civilisations … This makes Uranus the third-largest by size. Fun Uranus Facts For Kids – Amazing Facts About Uranus Outer Space Facts For Kids , Science Facts For Kids We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Uranus was the first planet to be discovered with the help of a telescope. The axial tilt of Uranus is by far the unique among all planets. Go and read them – these facts will astound you as much as they would astound your kids! Uranus Appears Blue Uranus has a blue appearance that makes the study of atmospheric patterns much more difficult compared to Saturn and Jupiter. When he looked through the telescope and saw a strange, slow-spinning object, Herschel wasn’t sure what he was looking at was a planet. Uranus is slightly larger in diameter than its neighbor Neptune, yet smaller in mass. Currently, NASA is evaluating the possibility of future missions to Uranus and Neptune to help in the upcoming Planetary Decadal Survey. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. Thankfully Herschel’s sycophantic attempts to name Uranus was not popular, or we wouldn’t have ‘your-anus’ in our midst anymore! The atmosphere is made up of 83% hydrogen, 15% helium, and 2% methane. This is why there has been no mention of Uranus sightings before William Herschel saw it through his telescope in 1781. The moons of Uranus are, however, considered small and somewhat irregular. by Matt Williams Ten Interesting Facts About Uranus The gas (and ice) giant known as Uranus is a fascinating place. Even though Uranus is the third largest planet in our solar system and four hundred times the size of Earth, the planet is not readily visible to the naked eye. The rings of Uranus are thought to have formed around 600 million years ago from the collision of moons or other big celestial objects. 9. Miranda is made of ice that may consist of carbon dioxide and ammonia. Uranus is the 7 th planet away from the Sun, and by diameter, is the third largest. The name was, however, not widely accepted and was finally dropped in favor of Uranus. Uranus is one of the four planets in the solar system that is a gas planet. It is also the coldest planet in the Solar System with temperatures dropping as low as -224 degrees. Other planets were visible to the naked eye, so they were discovered before astronomical inventions were made. The planet has a magnitude of 5.3, which falls within the scale of brightness perceivable by the human eye. By Oishimaya Sen Nag on September 8 2017 in Did You Know. 42. Neptune, however, which is almost similar in size of Uranus, emits 2.6 times the heat it receives from the Sun. Uranus, however, is named after the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos or Uranus. It’s over 19 times further away from the sun than the Earth is! Uranus, with its featureless, blue-green disk, is the only planet to be named after a Greek and not a Roman god. But there is evidence to suggest that Uranus suffered a collision at least twice. There’s a lot more to learn about fascinating Uranus and its five major rocky moons: Miranda, Titania, Ariel, Umbriel, and Oberon. Something really big – many times bigger than the earth – may have crashed into Uranus a long time ago and thrown the planet on its side. No planet other than Uranus has such a screwball way of spinning around the sun! It has a mass of 8.68 x 10 25 kg. This kind of extreme temperature difference creates seasons as long as 20 years. In fact, Uranus has a thick, smoggy atmosphere that becomes denser the deeper you go. If the mass of all the moons around the planet were added up, it probably would not match the mass of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton. The planet can get as hot as it gets cold. Such a discovery has somewhat changed the way we think about the formation of planets in our solar system. Ancient people had already scanned the skies and discovered six of the nine planets that we recognize today (the other modern discoveries were Neptune and Pluto (now classified as a dwarf planet), too dim to the naked eye). All maps, graphics, flags, photos and original descriptions © 2020 worldatlas.com, The 10 Coldest Cities In The United States. When he looked through the telescope and saw a … But the icy winds of Uranus can uproot trees, dislodge houses and do a lot more damage in seconds than we’ve seen on Earth. But Uranus was too dim for ancients to consider as a planet. This may have happened at the beginning of the solar system when the moons of Uranus were still balls of gas. Uranus, a distant planet in our Solar System that orbits the Sun billions of kilometers from the Earth, but what facts do you know about Uranus? Uranus has the coldest atmosphere in the solar system and it’s not hard to see why. 25. Uranus and Venus turn in a retrograde direction which is … It’s fun to know that the winds of Uranus only blow in very narrow layers that are a very small proportion of the planet’s atmosphere. 8 Useful Facts About Uranus. Compare with Earth temperatures, where the coldest it’s got in recent years was a record -93.2 degrees C in Antarctica in 2013. Some of the planet’s largest moons include Miranda, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. 13. He may have preferred ‘Uranus’, and so that’s what this planet beyond Saturn came to be called. Uranus is one of two ice giants in the outer solar system (the other is Neptune). Here are some other interesting facts about Uranus, the oddball planet, that we bet will fascinate you. 10. Fun Facts about the Planet Uranus. Temperatures are freezing -153 degrees C to -218 degrees C in the deeper troposphere where the clouds are. Now, there are different theories that explain the inability of Uranus to emit the heat from its core. Along with Neptune, Uranus is an ice giant.. The sixth planet is Saturn and the eigth planet is Neptune. The planet has, therefore, been spotted multiple times by pre-modern and ancient astronomers who generally mistook it for a distant star due to its relatively low luminosity. It is the only planet that takes its name from Greek (rather than Roman) mythology. The seventh planet from the sun is the 3 rd largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter and Saturn, this planet was discovered centuries ago but only few in the world knows the true myths of Uranus.. About The Planet Uranus. Interesting Facts About Uranus for Kids. Because of the presence of icy layers, it is also known as the Ice Planet. Most (80 percent or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense fluid of "icy" materials—water, methane and ammonia—above a small rocky core. November 15, 2017. Mars is the Roman god of war, for instance. If you love studying planets, you’ll know that most planets are named after Roman gods. The mean density of the planet ~ 1.27 g/cm3, and the mass of Uranus is 8.68×1025 kg (~ 14.5 times more massive than Earth). Since ancient times it was not recognized due to its dimness and slow orbit. Uranus was the first ever planet to be discovered with the help of a telescope. This curious fact has something to do with how Latin (which the Romans spoke) and Greek words were so closely interconnected in the minds of people during the Renaissance, when Uranus was discovered. Uranus has 27 moons, Jupiter has 67 while the Earth has just one. The planet’s color comes from the 2 percent methane gas in its atmosphere, along with mostly hydrogen (83 percent) and some Helium (15 percent). Interesting facts about Uranus. He had been surveying stars, including those that were ten times dimmer than visible stars. Uranus is named after the Greek god of the sky. You need to have a telescope in order to see it, which also makes Uranus the first planet which was discovered the use of a telescope. Uranus was the husband of Gaia, the goddess of the Earth. While other planets rotate on their axis with a tilt relative to the sun, the axial tilt of Uranus is far more pronounced. This is easier to understand if you think about how large Uranus is. But do you know, before Sir William Herschel, it was not recognized as a planet? When William Herschel first discovered the planet in 1781, the English astronomer named it the Georgium Sidus (the Georgian Planet) in honor of King George III. However, the rings are not as prominent as those around Saturn. This contrasts Triton, which was captured by Neptune’s gravitational pull. The flyby was conducted by NASA’s Voyager 2 at a distance of 50,331 miles from the planet's cloud tops in January 1986. Uranus is the 3rd largest planet in the solar system. Uranus is the only planet named after a Greek god rather than a Roman god. “Uranus orbits the Sun every 84 Earth years.”. Waiting for the ideal circumstances to travel to planets such as Mars or Venus may take months or years. In 2009, the possibility of extending the space mission of the Cassini spacecraft (at the time studying Saturn) to Uranus was discussed but was never actualized. I thought it would be fun to take a closer look at one of the planets in our Solar System so here are 10 random facts about Uranus. For comparison, the axial tilt of Mars is 24 degrees, and Earth’s axial tilt is about 23.5 degrees while that of Uranus is 98 degrees. The last of these 27 moons was discovered in 2003. This will show you how deep the planet’s tilt angle really is. 23. Nearly all the planets in the solar system get their names from Roman Mythology. The pressure on the surface is around 1.3 times that of the earth and the gravity is about 0.9 times that of Earth. 4. Here are 10 interesting facts about planet Uranus. 14. The new name followed a tradition of naming new planets after Roman mythological deities. The earliest of such exploration was possibly done by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus in 128 BC. The resulting phenomenon is days in either pole that lasts 84 Earth years. The funny thing is this makes Uranus the first planet to have been discovered in modern times! If you look in the direction of Uranus through a telescope, you will see a bluish-greenish disk. If one stood on either pole of the planet, one would probably and experience 42 years of sunlight and 42 years under cover of darkness. Uranus gets its blue-green color from m… The planet orbits about 1.79 billion miles away from the sun. Each season on Uranus lasts 21 years. Uranus was the first of three planets to have been discovered, thanks to the invention of the telescope. But Uranus’ tilt is so pronounced that generally one pole or the other is pointing towards the Sun. Uranus facts!! The planet’s blue appearance is due to the absorption of red light by methane, which then scatters away blue light. 17. 20. Traveling to other planets has always been quite a challenge. Winds on Uranus can travel as fast as 560 miles per hour. Where the sun’s radiation hits the planet’s outer atmosphere layers, temperatures can get as hot as 577 degrees C. The core may get as hot as 4,727 degrees (which is nothing to Jupiter’s 24,000 degrees C core). 26. The results of the survey will help NASA determine its planetary science priorities going into the future. © 2020 TheFactFile.Org. Scientists believe that the rings are relatively young and might not have been formed during the formation of the planet. Experts believe that this tilt was the result, literally, of several punches to the planet and not just one big collision. The rocky substance on the moon is thought to be made of carbonaceous matter. It is possible to see Uranus … Jupiter is barely tilted at an angle of 3 degrees. Uranus has third most moons in the solar system. To view the planet, one must, however, ensure that the darkness of the night sky is not subject to light pollution. 3. 7. 16. Uranus has a blue appearance that makes the study of atmospheric patterns much more difficult compared to Saturn and Jupiter. It is a bright bluish-green color which it gets from the methane in its atmosphere. It was discovered in December 13, 1781 by … Uranus is too dim for ancient civilizations to have seen it. The atmosphere is made up of 83% hydrogen, 15% helium, and 2% methane. These gas planets are called ‘Jovian Planets’ Uranus is made up of layers and layers of gas, and has many rings and moons that orbit around the planet. The discovery was made in 1781 by an astronomer called William Herschel, who at the time was charting stars in the sky. The density of Uranus is one of the lowest in the Solar System with a mean density of 0.0459 lbs/in3. A lot of other names had been rejected in the naming of Uranus. It seems that Johann Bode, the German astronomer that settled on the name Uranus, may not have liked how the Latin name for the father of Saturn, Caelus, sounded. Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and the third-largest planet in our solar system. 18. While Neptune, which is farther away, has the coldest average temperature, Uranus goes into the books for the lowest recorded temperatures. This is why there has been no mention of Uranus sightings before William Herschel saw it through his telescope in... 3. Check out some of the interesting facts about Uranus: 1. It is the second least dense planet; Saturn is the least dense of all. Despite being the seventh most distant planet from the sun and over a billion miles away from the Earth, Uranus can still be viewed with unaided eyes. 8. Uranus is located at a distance of about 2.88 billion km or 19.2 AU from the Sun. 5. It took some time for others to confirm that Uranus was a planet because it follows a planetary orbit. 19. It is the seventh planet from the Sun (Order of the... 2. For example, if you were to fall off your spacecraft over Uranus, you’d probably find yourself half-falling and half-swimming through the planet’s atmosphere. 21 Amazing Facts About Uranus 1. the temperature on the planet can get as low as -224 degrees Celsius. This was the first planet to be discovered using a telescope. That’s not exactly supersonic speed (the speed of sound in air is 750 miles per hour) so a stationary jet in the path of the crashing wind won’t experience a sonic boom like it would on Neptune. The planet’s blue appearance is due to the absorption of red light by methane, which then scatters away blue light. Uranus as seen by the human eye (left) and with colored filters (right). Uranus has only received one visit by a spacecraft. Uranus is icy and burning hot, with extreme seasons. Uranus is the \"butt\" of more than a few jokes and witty (and not so witty) puns, but it's also a frequent destination in various fictional stories, such as the video game Mass Effect and TV shows like Doctor Who. Ready? The British astronomer thought it was a comet or a star. In other words, a 10 feet dunk on Earth would equate to an 11 feet dunk on Uranus. 15 Interesting Facts About Uranus. Read also: 300 Crazy Fun Facts To Start Your Day The Name Uranus Comes from the Same Root Word as Urine. The unexpected observation is due to the unique properties of its core, thought to have cooled down at some point. At least, it’s not visible to the naked eye even though it is the third-largest planet in our solar system and four hundred times the size of the earth! But you can’t see Uranus. BY David W Brown. 1. 14 Interesting Facts About Uranus Planet The third largest planet in the solar system, Uranus, looks majestic in its beautiful greenish – blue color. 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