The ruler of the sky and universe didn’t like the thought that one of his offspring could potentially take his spot on the throne. Uranus attempted to lock away and hide his children in order to protect himself. This would become his downfall because of the pain that it causes Gaia. Aft...
Here’s how it works. Did you ever meet a person and wonder what their parents were thinking when they picked out their child's name? Many people may do the same when they are required to give a presentation on the seventh planet in the solar system. But just how do you pronounce ...
Umbriel, named for a malevolent spirit in Alexander Pope's 18th-century poem "Rape of the Lock," is thedarkest of Uranus' largest moons. According to NASA, it reflects only 16% of the light that falls on its surface. Quite how the surface of Umbriel became so dark is a mystery. Anoth...
It will be a time to leave certain friends behind and start over. Muddle through your past and see how occupation, money, and relationships changed you. What difficult decisions did you make? Did you absorb anything from them or are you at the same place, doing the same thing that you ...
The rest of the actors are of the highest standard, especially Philippe Noiret who has a superb scene where he explains how he has developed his peculiar vision of life. This film never got all the credit it should have probably due to the complexity of the characters. This reviewer ...
"[Next to Bolina, Akhaia (Achaea)] a cape juts out into the sea, and of it is told a story how Kronos (Cronus) threw into the sea here the sickle with which he mutilated his father Ouranos (Uranus, Heaven). For this reason they call the cape Drepanon." [N.B. drepanon means ...
German astronomer Johann Elert Bode proposed the name. As a German, he presumably didn’t realize how it would sound in English—or maybe hedidknow and was deliberately trolling King George! That’s my personal theory. Whatever Bode’s intentions were, Uranus is now stuck with its name and...
Its name is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Uranus, who, according to Greek mythology, was the grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter) and father of Cronus (Saturn). It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in ...
TheOrbit Inclinationis 0.772 degrees, that is how much the orbit deviates from the orbital plane. The volume of Uranus at the equator is 6833. TheEscape Velocity, the speed which is need to break free is 21.3 kilometers per second.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth. Detailed computer simulations show that an enormous rock crashed into the seventh ...