the seventh planet of solar system discovered - 1781 by w. herschel temperature -210 ͦc typical...
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•the seventh planet of solar system
•discovered - 1781 by W. Herschel
•temperature -210 C ͦ•typical blue-green
colour
• The rotational period of the interior is 17 hours• He has 27 known natural satellites• In 1986 NASA's Voyager 2 visited Uranus.• Uranus has a complicated planetary ring system,
which was the second such system to be discovered in the Solar System after Saturn's.
• Uranus revolves around the Sun once every 84 Earth years.
PLANETARY RINGSPLANETARY RINGS
- composed of extremely dark particles
- thirteen distinct rings are presently known
- extremely narrow - a few kilometres wide.
- rings – grey
- discovered – 10.03.1977
- december 2005- detected a pair of previously unknown rings
- methane - absorbs red light, giving Uranus its blue-green color
- are named 6, 5, 4, Alpha, Beta, Eta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon
- moons – count –27 –icy moons
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