Our Solar System's Planets: Uranus
Well, here is is, the planet whose name has made kids snicker for years - Uranus.
Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun, and is the coldest planet in the Solar System. Why? Who knows, it just is. Its distance from the sun is 1.78 billion miles from the sun (2.8 billion km), and its diameter is 31,518 miles (50,724 km). It is also the only planet known to rotate on its side, having an axial tilt of 97 degrees. Due to its distance from the sun, it takes 84 years to complete one orbit, and the length of a day on Uranus is 17 hours and 14 minutes.
I have actually seen Uranus is a telescope that I had many years back, when I was a teenager; astronomy is one of my favorite of studies.
Anyway - enjoy the video, a gentleman named Alex McColgan is the creator of the planet videos I have been posting. You can pay him a visit if you like - he is using these videos to educate people and make money for himself, which is not a bad idea!
Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun, and is the coldest planet in the Solar System. Why? Who knows, it just is. Its distance from the sun is 1.78 billion miles from the sun (2.8 billion km), and its diameter is 31,518 miles (50,724 km). It is also the only planet known to rotate on its side, having an axial tilt of 97 degrees. Due to its distance from the sun, it takes 84 years to complete one orbit, and the length of a day on Uranus is 17 hours and 14 minutes.
I have actually seen Uranus is a telescope that I had many years back, when I was a teenager; astronomy is one of my favorite of studies.
Anyway - enjoy the video, a gentleman named Alex McColgan is the creator of the planet videos I have been posting. You can pay him a visit if you like - he is using these videos to educate people and make money for himself, which is not a bad idea!
