Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and the fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System.
Like the other giant planets, Uranus has a ring system, a magnetosphere, and numerous moons. The Uranian system has a unique configuration because its axis of rotation is tilted sideways, nearly into the plane of its solar orbit.Uranus is the only planet whose name is derived directly from a figure from Greek mythology, from the Latinised version of the Greek god of the sky Ouranos.
Uranus Facts
- Equatorial Diameter: 25,559 km(4,0007 earths)
- Polar Diameter: 24,973 km(3,929 earths)
- Mass: 4.5 times the size of Earth
- Moons: 27(Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon)
- Orbit Distance: 3 billion km(20AU)
- Orbit Period: 84.0205 years
- Surface Temperature: -224.2° to -371.5°F
- First Record: William Herschel, discoverer of Uranus in 1781
- Rings: 13