URANUS NAMED FOR OURANOS THE GREEK GOD OF

URANUS

NAMED FOR… • OURANOS, THE GREEK GOD OF THE SKY • GRANDFATHER TO ZEUS

THE STATS • MASS: 8. 681 × 1025 kg • RADIUS: 25. 362 km • DISTANCE FROM THE SUN: • GRAVITY: 8. 87 m/s 2 14. 5 TIMES MORE MASSIVE THAN EARTH 2. 9563 BILLION km

MORE STATS • URANUS IS VISIBLE NOT FROM EARTH • MAGNITUDE: +5. 7

URANUS’S MOONS & RINGS • URANUS HAS 27 MOONS AND 13 RINGS!. • MIRANDA (LARGEST), ARIEL, UMBRIEL, OBERON, AND TITANIA

• URANUS IS AN ICE GIANT! • DOES NOT HAVE A SOLID SURFACE, IT IS A GAS PLANET WITH A MOLTEN IRON & NICKEL INNER CORE, & SURROUNDED BY HOT WATER, AMMONIA & METHANE ICES • NO VOLCANOES, NO EROSION, NO IMPACT CRATERS • MAGNETIC FIELD IS 50 ×’S STRONGER THAN EARTH’S SURFACE & INTERIOR

ATMOSPHERE AND TEMPERATURE • PLANET IS BLANKETED BY CLOUDS MADE OF HYDROGEN, HELIUM, AND METHANE GASES • LIGHT BLUE • TEMPERATURE IS -214 C

It also rains diamonds bigger than a grizzly bear deep inside Uranus! E R U T A R E P M E T & E ATMOSPHER GEN AND HELIUM • EOUS HYDRO AS G F O E AD M IS IT , ET AN LIKE THE PL • UDS THAT LOOK LO C E IT H W D AN , W O LL YE , ROWN COVERED IN THICK RED, B LIKE STRIPES • CAN RAIN DIAMONDS

S G N I R ’S N R U T SA RED MOONS TE AT SH & S, ID O R TE AS S, MADE OF PIECES OF COMET OF ROCK & ICE S K N U H C L AL SM F O S N O BILLI • • • LOOK MOSTLY WHITE WN SPEED O S IT AT S IT B R O G IN R H • EAC 0 MILES) OUT FROM 0 , 0 75 (1 M K 0 0 0 2, 28 TO P • RING SYSTEM EXTENDS U 0 FEET) TALL (3 SATURN BUT IS ONLY 10 M

ROTATION • A DAY ON URANUS– 17 HOURS & 14 MINUTES • A YEAR ON URANUS - 84 EARTH YEARS (30, 681 DAYS) • SATURN HAS A TILT OF 60 , SO IT IS BASICALLY LAYING ON ITS SIDE!

• URANUS SPINS THE OPPOSITE WAT OF THE OTHER PLANETS • A SEASON ON URANUS LASTS FOR 42 YEARS • 27 MOONS WHICH ARE NAMED AFTER THE CHARACTERS FROM THE WORK PIECES OF ALEXANDER POPE AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. INTERESTING FACTS