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    Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical...
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    Uranus, the seventh planet of the Solar System, has 28 confirmed moons. Most of them are named after characters that appear in, or are mentioned in, the...
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    In Greek mythology, Uranus (/ˈjʊərənəs/ YOOR-ə-nəs, also /jʊˈreɪnəs/ yoo-RAY-nəs), sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. 'sky', [uːranós])...
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    fixed stars. In 1821, Alexis Bouvard published astronomical tables of the orbit of Neptune's neighbour Uranus. Subsequent observations revealed substantial...
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    The rings of Uranus are intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune. The...
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    (1958). "The Naming of Uranus and Neptune". Leaflet of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Leaflets. 8 (352). Astronomical Society of the Pacific:...
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    Puck (moon) (redirect from Uranus XV)
    sixth-largest moon of Uranus. It was discovered in December 1985 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The name Puck follows the convention of naming Uranus's moons after...
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    The atmosphere of Uranus is composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. At depth it is significantly enriched in volatiles (dubbed "ices") such as water...
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    Ariel (moon) (redirect from Uranus I)
    fourth-largest moon of Uranus. Ariel orbits and rotates in the equatorial plane of Uranus, which is almost perpendicular to the orbit of Uranus and so has an extreme...
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    Titania (moon) (redirect from Uranus III)
    Titania (/təˈtɑːniə, təˈteɪniə/), also designated Uranus III, is the largest of the moons of Uranus. At a diameter of 1,578 kilometres (981 mi) it is...
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    An astronomical object, celestial object, stellar object or heavenly body is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists...
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    Oberon (moon) (redirect from Uranus IV)
    Oberon /ˈoʊbərɒn/, also designated Uranus IV, is the outermost and second-largest major moon of the planet Uranus. It is the second-most massive of the...
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  • "Asteroid 2014 YX49: a large transient Trojan of Uranus". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 467 (2): 1561–1568. arXiv:1701.05541. Bibcode:2017MNRAS...
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    astronomers, be confirmed to be a new planet, eventually given the name of Uranus. This was the first planet to be discovered since antiquity, and Herschel...
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  • Planet symbols (redirect from Uranus symbol)
    U+26E2 ⛢ ASTRONOMICAL SYMBOL FOR URANUS and U+2645 ♅ URANUS. The planetary symbols as rendered in 1784, including the newly discovered Uranus (left) The...
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    Ferdinand (moon) (redirect from Uranus XXIV)
    Ferdinand is the outermost retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus. It was first seen near Uranus by Matthew J. Holman, John J. Kavelaars, Dan Milisavljevic...
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    it for a star. In 1821, Alexis Bouvard had published astronomical tables of the orbit of Uranus, making predictions of future positions based on Newton's...
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    Trinculo (moon) (redirect from Uranus XXI)
    "An Ultradeep Survey for Irregular Satellites of Uranus: Limits to Completeness". The Astronomical Journal. 129 (1): 518–525. arXiv:astro-ph/0410059...
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    Margaret (moon) (redirect from Uranus XXIII)
    moons of Uranus. It was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard, et al. in 2003 and given the provisional designation S/2003 U 3. Confirmed as Uranus XXIII, it...
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    Astronomy (redirect from Astronomical)
    Observational astronomy is focused on acquiring data from observations of astronomical objects. This data is then analyzed using basic principles of physics...
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    Portia (moon) (redirect from Uranus XII)
    Astronomical Journal. 126 (2): 1080–1085. Bibcode:2003AJ....126.1080D. doi:10.1086/375909. Portia Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration Uranus'...
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    Miranda (moon) (redirect from Uranus V)
    Miranda, also designated Uranus V, is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February...
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    Aquarius are Saturn (In traditional astrology alongside Capricorn), and Uranus in modern astrology. It is a fixed Air Sign. The opposite sign of Aquarius...
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    Sycorax (moon) (redirect from Uranus XVII)
    the Irregular Satellite System around Uranus Inferred from K2, Herschel, and Spitzer Observations". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (3): 13. arXiv:1706.06837...
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    Caliban (moon) (redirect from Uranus XVI)
    the Irregular Satellite System around Uranus Inferred from K2, Herschel, and Spitzer Observations". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (3): 13. arXiv:1706.06837...
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    carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. There are two ice giants in the Solar System: Uranus and Neptune. In astrophysics and planetary science the term "ice" refers...
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    orbiting the Sun, symbols were invented for them. The most common astronomical symbol for Uranus, ⛢, was invented by Johann Gottfried Köhler, and was intended...
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    Bianca (moon) (redirect from Uranus VIII)
    is also an asteroid called 218 Bianca. Bianca is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on January 23, 1986...
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    Cressida (moon) (redirect from Uranus IX)
    French, Richard G. (28 August 2017). "Weighing Uranus' moon Cressida with the η ring". The Astronomical Journal. 154 (4): 153. arXiv:1708.07566. Bibcode:2017AJ...
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    Cordelia (moon) (redirect from Uranus VI)
    Cordelia is the innermost known moon of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on January 20, 1986, and was given the temporary designation...
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