Uranus

Welcome to the page of Uranus. Here you will find facts, videos, and pictures all of Uranus.
By: Mara Herman & Noah Kopriva

Basic information:

 * ====Uranus is the 7th planet from the sun====
 * ====The orbit of Uranus is approximately 2,870,990,000 km from the sun====
 * ====The diameter of Uranus is 51,118 km====
 * ====The mass of Uranus 8.683e25====
 * ====The density is the second least in the solar system====

Uranus's Atmosphere:
The temperature of the atmosphere is -355 degrees. Its atmosphere is made up of 83% hydrogen, 15% helium, and 2% methane. It has a strong magnetic filed around it. 

The moons of Uranus:
Uranus has 27 moons. Titania is Uranus biggest moon. In the past few years 5 new moons have been found orbiting Uranus. In 1997 2 moons Caliban and Sycorax were discoverd using the 200-inch Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. Voyager 2 found two small shepherd moons for it, one just inside and one just outside. They appear to be about 20-30 km in diameter, and have been named Ohelia and Cordelia.

It has 11 sets of rings around Uranus-
==== Most of the rings are not quite circular, and most are not exactly in the plane of the equator. The rings vary in brightness with angle around the moon, apparently because they vary in width with angle. The rings are very narrow (some only a few kilometers across) and no material can be detected in the regions between the rings. It is speculated that this stability of the narrow rings may be due to small "shepherding satellites", as discussed in conjunction with Saturn's rings. The brightest ring is termed the Epsilon ring. ====

** Discovery of Uranus: **
British atronomer William Herschel discoverd Uranus in 1781. Uranus has been visited by Voyager 2 but never by man. It is the first planet to have been discovered since the ancient times. And it was the first planet to be discovered by a telescope.

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