Uranus

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Uranus is an ice giant planet in our Solar System, notable for its pale blue-green color and extreme axial tilt that causes it to rotate on its side.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf gas giant
giant planet
ice giant
outer planet
planet
albedo about 0.51 geometric albedo
aphelionDistance about 20.1 astronomical units
atmosphereComponent methane
traces of hydrocarbons
water vapor (trace)
atmospherePrimaryComponent hydrogen
atmosphereSecondaryComponent helium
axialTilt about 97.8 degrees
belongsTo Solar System
category ice giant of the Solar System
colorCause methane absorption in upper atmosphere
coreType rocky core (likely)
discoveredBy William Herschel
discoveryDate 1781-03-13
discoveryInstrument telescope
equatorialDiameter about 51,118 kilometers
equatorialRotationDirection retrograde
escapeVelocity about 21.3 kilometers per second
flybyDate 1986-01-24
interiorComposition ammonia ice
methane ice
water ice
knownMoons 27
largeMoon Ariel
Miranda
Oberon
Umbriel
largestMoon Titania
lowestObservedTemperature about 47 Kelvin
magneticField highly tilted relative to rotation axis
significantly offset from planetary center
mass about 8.68e25 kilograms
massRelativeToEarth about 14.5 times Earth
meanDensity about 1.27 grams per cubic centimeter
meanRadius about 25,362 kilometers
meanTemperature about 49 Kelvin
moonNamingTheme characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope
namedAfter Uranus
surface form: Uranus (Greek god of the sky)
numberOfKnownRings 13
obliquity retrograde rotation
orbitalEccentricity about 0.047
orbitalInclination about 0.77 degrees to ecliptic
orbitalPeriod about 84 Earth years
perihelionDistance about 18.3 astronomical units
positionInSolarSystem seventh planet from the Sun
previousClassification star (pre-discovery observations)
ringDiscovery 1977
ringSystem has planetary rings
rotationPeriod about 17.24 hours
semiMajorAxis about 19.2 astronomical units
surfaceGravity about 8.69 meters per second squared
visitedBy Voyager 2
visualAppearance pale blue-green color

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subject surface form: Imaging Science System
Voyager 2 firstFlybyOf Uranus
Sol gravitationallyBinds Uranus
Solar System hasComponent Uranus
Solar System hasPlanet Uranus
Voyager program target Uranus