Uranus

Our planets name is Uranus. Its number of moons is 27. Its order from the sun is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn ,Uranus then Neptune, and last but least Pluto. You might be wondering the distance from the sun well it is 2,871 million kilometers. The revolution is 84 years for a single revolution. And its rotation period is 17 hours and 14 minutes. Sir Whilhem Friedrich Herschel discovered Uranus on November 15, 1738. It was named after a greek god ( not Rhoman). The meaning of its name is supream god a personifiction of the sky, who was the son of consort of Gaea. The planets symbol is very unique it is a circle with a dot in the center, with a sphere pointing of the top. Uranus also means lord of skies and husband of Earth. King of gods untill son Saturn overthrew him. The mass of Uranus is 14.6 times more than Earth. The adverage temperture is -184c ( -300 f). The diameter is 51,117 and kilometer is 31,763miles. The atmosphere is hydrogen, helium, methaine. The escape velocity is 76,605 km/h (47,600 mph). One orbit of sun is 30,684 days, and one rotation is 17.2 hours. The adverage density is 1.27g/cm3 or 1 1/4 times density of water. The layers of the planet is icy 83%, hydrogen 15%, helium 2%. The atmosphere composition is frozen, gasous planet with a molten core. Some unique features are Uranus has 11 rings and is the 7th planet from the sun. Some of the new findings of the mission of Uranus is it spins on an axis almost parrelle with the plan of the solar system. The information was found in November 15, 1738. Some cool facts about Uranus is... If you weighed 110 pounds on Earth is 122 pounds on Uranus. Also if you weighed 170 pounds on Uranus. Uranus next Birthday is in 0.72 days and it is 84.01 years old. Some extra stuff about Uranus is actual distance from the sun us 2,870,000,000 km. Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun and was decovered in 1781. Another thing is some people belive a collision with another object tipped Uranus on its side. Uranus takes up 67 times as much spaceas the Earth. Also scientist think that Uranus has a huge water ocean underneath its clouds. Uranus has 27 moons and 5 are large and the rest are all small. The 27 moons are Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemora, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Seteos, Stephano, and 1986010. Then Uranus is almost identical to planet Neptune. Uranus average orbital speed is 6.8 (km/s). Uranus atmosphere gives the planet its distinct bluish-green color. Uranus is a large gaseous planet and it has thin dark lines.

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