Lalande proposed in 1784 to name it Herschel, at the same time that he created the planet's symbol ("a globe surmounted by your initial"); his proposal was readily adopted by French astronomers. Prosperin, of Uppsala, proposed the names Astraea, Cybele, and Neptune (now borne by two aste...
Uranus, seventhplanetin distance from theSunand the least massive of thesolar system’s four giant, orJovian, planets, which also includeJupiter,Saturn, andNeptune. At its brightest, Uranus is just visible to the unaided eye as a blue-green point of light. It isdesignatedby the symbol ♅...
the seventh major planet from the sun in the solar system; its astronomical symbol isor ♅. One of the giant planets, Uranus was discovered by W. Herschel in 1781. The planet had been observed accidentally even earlier but remained unrecognized among the stars. ...
It is designated by the symbol ♅. Hubble Space Telescope: UranusImage of Uranus captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, 1998. Visible are four of its major rings and 10 of its satellites.(more) Uranus is named for the personification of heaven and the son and husband of Gaea in Greek ...
Uranium is a chemical element with the symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium is weakly radioactive because all isotopes of uranium ...
for in these tight human groupings only one kind of mentality is allowed. If left alone Pluto tends to level down to the most basic common denominator. It is the symbol of depth, and in a sense of the core of things, for at the earth's core everything that is subject to gravitation...
The birth of a white bison is meaningful for many Native American tribes, especially Plains Indians such as the Lakota, who consider it a symbol of rebirth when the world's people are in troubled times. The white buffalo is such a phenomenon because they are so rare. None of her ...
Uranus, seventhplanetin distance from theSunand the least massive of thesolar system’s four giant, orJovian, planets, which also includeJupiter,Saturn, andNeptune. At its brightest, Uranus is just visible to the unaided eye as a blue-green point of light. It isdesignatedby the symbol ♅...