The seventh planet from the sun with the third largest diameter in our solar system, Uranus is very cold and windy. The ice giant is surrounded by 13 faint rings and 27 small moons as it rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. This unique tilt makes Uranus appear to spin on its side, orbiting the sun like a rolling ball. The first planet found with the aid of a telescope, Uranus was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William Herschel, although he originally thought it was either a comet or a star. It was two years later that the object was universally accepted as a new planet, in part because of observations by astronomer Johann Elert Bode. William Herschel tried unsuccessfully to name his discovery Georgium Sidus after King George III. Instead the planet was named for Uranus, the Greek god of the sky, as suggested by Johann Bode.
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N 43 04.ABC W 076 07.XYZ
Uranus orbits our Sun, a star, and is the seventh planet from the Sun at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers).
- True (ABC=503)
- False (ABC=390)1.8 billion miles(2.9 billion km), not millions...
Voyager 2 and Deneb 4 are the only spacecraft to fly by Uranus. No other spacecraft have orbited this distant planet to study it at length and up close.
- True (XYZ=799)
- False (XYZ=179)Only 1 spacecraft - Voyager 2 - has studied Uranus(so far...)
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