Fast Rotation: Uranus has a rotation period of almost 17 hours and 14 minutes. This means that a day on Uranus lasts 17 hours and 14 minutes. The unusual tilt of the axis of rotation of Uranus has consequences on its rotation. At certain times of the Uranian year, one of the planet'...
Tilt of axis (degrees) 97.86 Orbital inclination (degrees) 0.774 Equatorial surface gravity (m/sec^2) 7.77 Equatorial escape velocity (km/sec) 21.30 Visual geometric albedo 0.51 Magnitude (Vo) 5.52 Mean cloud temperature -193°C Atmospheric pressure (bars) 1.2 Atmospheric composition HydrogenHelium...
tilt angle of magnetic axis58.6° offset of magnetic axis0.31 of Uranus's radius number of known moons27 planetary ring system13 known rings Most of the planets rotate on an axis that is more or less perpendicular to the plane of their respective orbits around the Sun. But Uranus’s axis ...
Results.If it migrates over 10 Uranus’s radii, a single satellite with minimum mass 4 × 10−4Uranus’s mass is able to tilt Uranus from a small obliquity and make it converge towards 90°. In order to achieve the tilting in less than the age of the Solar System, the mean drift...
inclination of equator to orbit97.8° magnetic field strength at equator0.23 gauss tilt angle of magnetic axis58.6° offset of magnetic axis0.31 of Uranus's radius number of known moons27 planetary ring system13 known rings Most of the planets rotate on an axis that is more or less perpendicula...
Uranus is the seventh planet from theSun. It’s not visible to the naked eye, and became the first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. Uranus is tipped over on its side with an axial tilt of 98 degrees. It is often described as “rolling around the Sun on its side.” ...
Like Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus is known as being one of the gas giants. The planet Uranus gets its name from “Uranos”, the ancient Greek deity of the sky, and grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter), father of Cronos (Saturn) and son of Gaia. The angle of the tilt of the axis of Uranus...
One of the most distinctive features of Uranus is its axial tilt of ninety-eight degrees. Consequently, for part of its orbit one pole faces the Sun continually while the other pole faces away. At the other side of Uranus' orbit the orientation of the poles towards the Sun is reversed. ...
According to the simulations, this can most likely be explained by the impact object striking a grazing blow on the planet. The collision was strong enough to affect Uranus' tilt, but the planet was able to retain the majority of its atmosphere. ...
Using numerical integration, we show that res-onance capture is possible in a variety of past solar system conf i gurations, but that thetimescale required to tilt the planet to 90° is of the order ∼10 8 yr—a timespan that isuncomfortably long. A resonance kick could tilt the ...