10 Interesting Facts About Planet Uranus

Here are 10 interesting facts about planet Uranus.

1. 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. But Uranus’ tilt is so pronounced that generally one pole or the other is pointing towards the Sun. That means a day at Uranus’ north pole lasts half a Uranian year – 84 Earth years.

And if you could stand on Uranus’ north pole, you’d see the Sunrise in the sky for 42 years, and turn back. The Sun will eventually dip below the horizon by the end of this long, drawn-out “summer.” This would be followed by 42 year of obscurity, otherwise known as a single “winter” season on Uranus.

2. Planet Uranus was officially discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781. It is too dark for the ancients to have seen. At first, Herschel assumed it was a comet, but it was confirmed as a planet many years later. Herschel sought to have his discovery named “Georgian Sidus” after King George III. Astronomer Johann Bode proposed the name Uranus. The name originates from Ouranos, the ancient Greek god.

3. Planet Uranus currently has 13 identified rings. All but two Uranians are extremely small-only a few kilometers long. The rings are believed to be relatively young. The matter in the rings is believed to be pieces of a moon or planets separated by high-speed collisions with an object like a comet or an asteroid.

4. The two ice giants found in the outer solar system are Uranus and Neptune. Around 80 percent of Planet Uranus’ mass consists of thick, hot fluid of “cold” materials like water, methane, and ammonia. These are above a rocky core, with temperatures of 9,000 degrees F/4,892 degrees C near the core.

It is assumed that the inside of Planet Uranus comprises two layers, which are the core and a mantle. Scientists believe the heart consists mainly of rock and ice, and the mantle is about 13.3 times the Earth’s density and is made up of water, ammonia, and other elements.

5. Just one spacecraft was ever to reach Planet Uranus. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Before starting its path towards Neptune, it managed to take thousands of photographs of Uranus and his Moons. No other spacecraft has been sent out to Uranus, and there are no plans to explore this planet as of the beginning of 2013 for any future spacecraft.

6. Uranus’s rings were the first to be seen after those of Saturn. They were a big discovery as it made astronomers realize that rings are a common characteristic of planets, not just Saturn’s peculiarity. Planet Uranus has two sets of rings around it. The inner ring system consists mainly of small, dark circles, while an outer network of two more distant circles is brightly colored, as discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope: one red, one blue. 13 Known rings around Uranus have been identified by scientists.

7. The magnetic field of Planet Uranus is peculiar, it doesn’t get from its mathematical focus, and it is inclined at 59 ° from the hub of revolution. The magnetic pole is moved from the center towards the south rotational pole by as much as one-third of the planetary radius.

8. Uranus is the “butt” of in excess of a couple of jokes and funny (and not so clever) puns, especially in numerous fictional stories like the video game Mass Effect and TV shows like Doctor Who is also a regular destination. Planet Uranus was named after the radioactive element uranium when it was discovered in 1789, just eight years after the earth was discovered.

9. Uranus wind speeds reach up to 900 km per hour. This is roughly 560 miles per hour.

10. There are two primary ways to pronounce name for planet Uranus. The most common way to pronounce that is by “your-anus.” This also attracts a lot of chuckle, so Astronomers began pronouncing the word as “urine-iss” to prevent that.

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