URANUSBY: Leo Barba, James

Hayden Conner, Christian Rodriguez

About

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have different bulk chemical composition from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn.

What is Uranus next to?

Temperature

It is the coldest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System, with a minimum temperature of 49 degree farahiant, and has a complex, layered cloud structure, with water thought to make up the lowest clouds, and methane the uppermost layer of clouds.

Space School - Uranus

How old is Uranus?

Uranus is 4.5 billion years old. Uranus was formed at the same time as the rest of the Solar System, from a large spinning disk of gas and dust.

What its made of Like the other gas giants, it has a

hydrogen upper layer, which has helium mixed in. Below that is an icy “mantle, which surrounds a rock and ice core. The upper atmosphere is made of water, ammonia and the methane ice crystals that give the planet its pale blue color. Uranus' atmosphere is about 83% hydrogen, 15% helium and 2% methane.

Interesting facts

Uranus rains diamonds. Diamonds as the ones use to give as a special gift to someone!!

With minimum atmospheric temperature of

-224°C Uranus is nearly coldest planet in the solar system Uranus has 27 moons. Uranus'

moons are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope

The Rings of Uranus

Uranus has very faint rings. The inner part of the rings are narrow and dark and the outer rings are brightly colored. The rings of Uranus were discovered on March 10, 1977, by James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Jessica Mink. More than 200 years ago, in 1789, William Herschel also reported observing rings; some modern astronomers are skeptical that he could have actually seen them, as they are very dark and faint, others are not.

Distance from Uranus

Distance Ring (km) ------- -------- Zeta 39,600 6 41,840 5 42,230 4 42,580 Alpha 44,720 Beta 45,670 Eta 47,190 Gamma 47,630 Delta 48,290 Lambda 50,024 Epsilon 51,140 Nu 67,300 Mu 97,700

Moons of Uranus Uranus has 27 known natural moons. The

names of these satellites are chosen from characters in the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. The five main satellites are Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel , Titania ,and Oberon. The Uranian moon system is the least massive among those of the giant planets the combined mass of the five major moons would be less than half of Triton which is the largest moon of Neptune. Uranus, its rings and Moons - Voyager 2

These moons were discovered in 1851 by William Lassell (Ariel and Umbriel) and in 1948 by Gerard Kuiper (Miranda)

These five have planetary mass, and so would be considered (dwarf) planets if they were in direct orbit about the Sun. The remaining moons were discovered after 1985, either during the Voyager 2 flyby mission or with the aid of advanced Earth-based telescopes.

Distance Radius Mass Satellite (000 km) (km) (kg) Discoverer Date --------- -------- ------ ------- ---------- ----- Cordelia 50 13 ? Voyager 2 1986 Ophelia 54 16 ? Voyager 2 1986 Bianca 59 22 ? Voyager 2 1986 Cressida 62 33 ? Voyager 2 1986 Desdemona 63 29 ? Voyager 2 1986 Juliet 64 42 ? Voyager 2 1986 Portia 66 55 ? Voyager 2 1986 Rosalind 70 27 ? Voyager 2 1986 Cupid 75 6 ? Showalter 2003 Belinda 75 34 ? Voyager 2 1986 Perdita 76 40 ? Voyager 2 1986 Puck 86 77 ? Voyager 2 1985 Mab 98 8 ? Showalter 2003 Miranda 130 236 6.30e19 Kuiper 1948

Distance Radius MassSatellite (000 km) (km) (kg) Discoverer Date

Ariel 191 579 1.27e21 Lassell 1851 Umbriel 266 585 1.27e21 Lassell 1851 Titania 436 789 3.49e21 Herschel 1787 Oberon 583 761 3.03e21 Herschel 1787 Francisco 4281 6 ? Sheppard 2003 Caliban 7169 40 ? Gladman 1997 Stephano 7948 15 ? Gladman 1999 Trinculo 8578 5 ? Holman 2001 Sycorax 12213 80 ? Nicholson 1997 Margaret 14689 6 ? Sheppard 2003 Prospero 16568 20 ? Holman 1999 Setebos 17681 20 ? Kavelaars 1999 Ferdinand 21000 6 ? Sheppard 2003

BANG!

Uranus is 15,759 miles long. It takes approximately 84 years for

Uranus to orbit around the biggest star in our solar system also know as the SUN!!!

baby 84 year old man

When was it discovered???

Uranus was discovered on March 13th 1781. (Christians birthday I still take late gifts) The noble man who discovered this blue gaseous planet goes by the name of William Herschel. Giant Exo-Uranus Discovered!

Target Questions

Which is not true of all the inner planets?

Answer: Smaller, Harder, and Denser

Uranus axis is about how big?

Answer: Uranus axis is almost parallel to the plane of its orbit.