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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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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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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Neptune (redirect from The planet exterior to Uranus)
relative to fixed stars. In 1821, Alexis Bouvard published astronomical tables of the orbit of Uranus. Subsequent observations revealed substantial deviations...
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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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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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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 moon of Uranus. At a diameter of 1,578 kilometres (981 mi) it is the eighth...
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William Herschel (redirect from Discoverer of Uranus)
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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"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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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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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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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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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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The astronomical unit (symbol: au or AU) is a unit of length defined to be exactly equal to 149,597,870,700 m. Historically, the astronomical unit was...
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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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Discovery of Neptune (redirect from Irregularities in Uranus' orbit)
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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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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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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The climate of Uranus is heavily influenced by both its lack of internal heat, which limits atmospheric activity, and by its extreme axial tilt, which...
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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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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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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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Setebos (moon) (redirect from Uranus XIX)
satellites of Uranus. It was discovered on 18 July 1999 by John J. Kavelaars et al. and provisionally designated S/1999 U 1. Confirmed as Uranus XIX, it is...
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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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Umbriel (moon) (redirect from Uranus II)
Umbriel (/ˈʌmbriəl/) is the third-largest moon of Uranus. It was discovered on October 24, 1851, by William Lassell. It was discovered at the same time...
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(including Sun and Earth) is counterclockwise. Venus rotates clockwise, and Uranus has been knocked on its side and rotates almost perpendicular to the rest...
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Francisco (moon) (redirect from Uranus XXII)
"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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