Urnanus

**Orbital Period:** 84.3 day

 * ====Since Uranus is a gaseous celestial object, the interior of Uranus rotates slower than it's poles.====
 * ====The interior of Uranus rotates once every 17 hours and 14 minutes.====

**Date of Discovery:** March 13, 1781

 * ====Uranus was doscovered during the years between the American and French revolutions and consequently. It connected to the qualities of freedom, independence and rebellion.====



**History:** Uranus was discovered in 1781 by **William Herschel**.

 * ====He discovered Uranus while surveying stars in the night sky by using a telescope that he built by himself. Herschel realized that one of these stars looked different, and after observing it many more times, noticed that it orbited the sun. After his discovering Uranus, he caluculated that Uranus had an orbit that was about 18 times farther from the sun than Earth.====

**Mythology**: It was the promal Greek god personifying the sky

 * ====William Herschel was not well-kown at ancient times. Astronomers continued the practice of naming planets after deities in Greek and Roman mythology and named this new planet after the Greek god Ouranos====



**Size:** 31690 miles

 * ====Uranus is the third largest planet in the solar system.====
 * ====Size of Uranus is bigger than such Pluto, Earth, Neptune, and smaller than Saturn and Jupiter.====
 * ====Uranus is about four times bigger than Earth. However, compared to the largest planet Jupiter, Uranus is a mere 1/20 of mass.====



**Composition:**

 * ====The compositio of Uranus' interior is mathane, in the form of ice. First, ice staarts to form in the atmosphere of Uranus near the methane cloud deck. The amount of ice in the air keeps increasing until there is slush and then solid ice.====
 * ====Uranus has very little metallic hydrogen and there is a lot more ice. This is because the magnetosphere comes from the metallic layedr.====



**Atmospheric Conditions:** Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun

 * ====Uranus's atmosphere in its primary composition of hydrogen and helium contains more ices such as water, ammonia and methane along with traces of hydrogen.====
 * ====It is the coldest planetary atmosphere in the solar system with a minumum temperature====

**Resources**

 * ====Uranus is made from helium and hydrogen. Uranus is composed mostly of various ices such as methane and ammonia.====



 * 1) ====Methane====
 * 2) ====Water====
 * 3) ====Wind====
 * 4) ====Hydrogen====
 * 5) ====Helium====
 * 6) ====Ammonia====

**Significant & Noteworthy Features:** Uranus was eventually tipped in order to the presence of a large moon.

 * ====Uranus is orbiting around the sun on its side and upright, which the axis of rotation perpendicular to the solar system's plane.====
 * ====Uranus is tilted 97 degrees to the vertical. At the same time, Earth's tilt is a little over 23 degrees and this actually gives us planet seasons.====




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