Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have different bulk chemical composition from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. For this reason, scientists often classify Uranus and Neptune as "ice giants" to distinguish them from the gas giants. Here we come up with a list of interesting cool randomfacts about Uranus planet for kids. Let's check out to know more about Uranus moons, mass,rings, surface, coldest planet. Science facts
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Uranus planet facts
#1
Uranus cannot be seen from the Earth without a telescope.
#2
The seventh planet from the Sun, it was not known in ancient times, unlike the planets fromMercury to Saturn.
#3
Uranus was first seen by William Herschel in 1781 during a survey of the sky using a telescope. In 1782 George III appointed Herschel as Astronomer Royal. StartsWilliam Herschel was born in Hanover, Germany. He moved to England in 1757 in order to follow a career as a musician but after buying a book on astronomy he became interested only in watching the sky.
#4
Herschel also discovered 2 of Uranus moons with a larger telescope.
#5
Uranus is one of the “gas giants”, the four outer planets which are entirely composed of gas,Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Interesting facts about Uranus planet for kids
#6
Most of the centre of Uranus is a frozen mass of ammonia and methane, which gives it the blue-green colour. The atmosphere also contains hydrogen and helium.
#7
Uranus orbits the Sun lying on its side and takes 84 years to complete one orbit. The Earth goes round the Sun in 365 days, one year.
#8
Because Uranus is lying on its side as it orbits the sun, for nearly a quarter of its orbit one pole of the planet is in complete darkness.
#9
Uranus takes 17.9 hours to turn once on its own axis, faster than the Earth, which takes 24 hours and gives us the change from day to night.
#10
Uranus was the ancient Greek God of the heavens whose sons were the Giants and Titans.
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#11
Uranus is the smallest of the four “giants”, but is still several times larger than the Earth. It has a diameter of 29297 miles, or 47, 150 kilometres, compared to the Earth’s diameter of just under 8000 miles, or 12,760 kilometres.
#12
Uranus has a total of 27 moons, most of whom are named after characters in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The five major moons are called Titania, Oberon, Miranda, Ariel and Umbriel. Umbriel is not from Shakespeare but is the “melancholy sprite” in a poem by Alexander Pope.
#13
Distances in the Solar system are measured in Astronomical Units (AU), with the Earth’s distance from the Sun being 1 AU. Uranus is 19.2 AU from the Sun. Figure 2 shows the distances of the first seven planets from the Sun, measured in AU.
#14
Uranus spins lying on its side (like a barrel), this is perhaps due to a large collision early in its formation.
#15
Uranus was the first planet discovered by telescope.
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#16
Since Uranus takes 84 Earth years to go around the sun, this means that each of its poles is in daylight for 42 years and in darkness for the next 42.
#17
Uranus atmosphere is mostly hydrogen but it also contains large amounts of a gas called methane. Methane absorbs red light and scatters blue light so a blue-green methane haze hides the interior of the planet from view.
#18
Uranus hides its interior but scientists guess that under the hydrogen-methane atmosphere is a hot, slushy ocean of water, ammonia and methane thousands of miles deep wrapped around a rocky core.
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