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13 unusual facts about Uranus


Andrew Prentice

He predicted that Uranus had two more moons or moonlet streams than commonly thought.

Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs

The Furies escape the coalition forces and set up a new base on a moon of Uranus.

Cosmos and Psyche

For Tarnas, the characteristics of the astrological entity Uranus match with those of the Greek mythical figure Prometheus better than with those of the conservative mythological figure Uranus.

Dorking F.C.

Dorking were founded by beings of unknown origin, though some claim they originated from Uranus.

German migration to the United Kingdom

There are also areas and buildings named after famous Germans, such as Holbein Place in Central London, named after the Renaissance painter Hans Holbein the Younger, as well as the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, an independent museum in Bath dedicated to the life and works of the famous astronomer William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781.

Herschel Girls' School

It was Miss Robinson who gave Herschel its motto Ad Dei Gloriam and who designed the new badge with the symbol for Uranus as a reminder of the link with the Herschel family.

Mathematical beauty

As there are exactly five Platonic solids, Kepler's hypothesis could only accommodate six planetary orbits and was disproved by the subsequent discovery of Uranus.

Regular polyhedron

Kepler's work, and the discovery since that time of Uranus and Neptune, have invalidated the Pythagorean idea.

Rocket to Uranus

Vengaboys are then shown on the spaceship with occasional flashes of the group arriving and dancing on Uranus.

Seasonal lag

The gas giants Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, as well as Saturn's moon Titan, all have substantial seasonal lags corresponding to the equivalent of between two and three months in Earth terms.

Universal War One

Enormous, incomprehensible and terrifying, "the wall" is centered on Uranus's moon Oberon, cutting off access to any planet beyond Saturn.

Upton, Slough

It was the marriage place (7 May 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir William Herschel (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicting Uranus, which he discovered, and other planets), and the burial place of Charles Hatchett who discovered niobium.

Virgilio Trettenero

The presence of the planet was postulated on the basis of the perturbation of the orbit of Uranus by Le Verrier and was observed for the first time only two years earlier.


Aphrodite, the Garden of the Perfumes

Based on the vision of Hesiod, in the classic Teogonía, the film begins in the city of Citrea when Cronos, the younger son of Uranus, cuts off the genitals of his father and it throws them into the sea.

Arecibo message

The solar system, showing the Sun and the planets in the order of their position from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Dagon

There are differences between the Ugaritic pantheon and that of Phoenicia centuries later: according to the third-hand Greek and Christian reports of Sanchuniathon, the Phoenician mythographer would have Dagon the brother of Ēl/Cronus and like him son of Sky/Uranus and Earth, but not truly Hadad's father.

David Earle Johnson

He appeared on numerous albums: Billy Cobham's Total Eclipse and Clive Stevens' Voyage to Uranus (1974); Jan Hammer's First Seven Days (1975); Lenny White's Big City and Miroslav Vitouš' Majesty Music (1977); Jaroslav Jakubovic's Checkin' In, Mark Moogy Klingman's Moogy II, the Players Association's Born to Dance, and Josh White Jr.'s self-titled album (1978); and others.

Dealul Spirii

Around the hill was located the Uranus quarter, named after the main thoroughfare, which ran up the hill from Calea Rahovei to the Stadium, and thence to Splaiul Independenţei and Izvor.

Hypothetical fifth gas giant

This led David Nesvorný of the Southwest Research Institute to propose that the Solar System began with five giant planets with an additional Neptune-mass planet between Saturn and Uranus.

Inner moon

Most of the remaining inner satellites were discovered by spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 during their flybys of Jupiter (1979), Saturn (1980), Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989).

Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Herschel's discovery of Uranus in 1781 inspired Schröter to pursue astronomy more seriously, and he resigned his post and became chief magistrate and district governor of Lilienthal.

Kamichama Karin

His ring has the power of Apollo, Greek god of light (in the Chu sequel, he has a different ring with the power of Uranus).

Kuiper belt

Modern computer simulations show the Kuiper belt to have been strongly influenced by Jupiter and Neptune, and also suggest that neither Uranus nor Neptune could have formed in their present positions, as too little primordial matter existed at that range to produce objects of such high mass.

Live from Uranus

The EP features a note from the band, which reads: "This stuff was recorded in Rochester, New York during our "Race Around Uranus" tour with blink-182 and Frenzal Rhomb. Anyway, everyone in LTJ is in love with Japan and can't wait until we can visit and play for you. Our shows are about silliness and free stuff. Tons and tons of thank yous go out to everyone who supports us and got our record! Hugs & Kisses, LTJ"

Marvel Boy

Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Russ Heath, with writer-artist Bill Everett taking over with issue #2, this Marvel Boy is the son of Dr. Horace Grabshield (later Anglicized as Grayson), a scientist who fled Earth to Uranus with his infant son during the rise of Nazi Germany.

Nicolae Densuşianu

His works theorize the existence of a Dacian-centered "Pelasgian Empire", created in the 6th millennium BC, and which, he claimed, was governed by Uranus and Saturn and comprised all of Europe.

SkyWeek

Uranus was discovered in 1781 by an amateur astronomer named William Herschel.

They Came to Conquer... Uranus

They Came to Conquer... Uranus was produced by O, guitarist of local punk band and Cargo label-mates Fluf.

Transit of Uranus from Neptune

This is the rarest of all single transits involving the eight planets, owing to the long synodic period of 172 years (of Uranus from Neptune), the very small apparent diameter of the Sun (1.07 arc-minutes, close to the limit of human visual resolution) as seen from Neptune, and the mutual inclination of the two orbits, 1.5 degrees, which is less than that of most planetary pairs.