Moons:27
Period of Rotation: 17 hours and 14 minutes
Period of Revolution: 84 years
Inner/Outer planet: Outer
Terrestrial/gaseous planet: gaseous
Distance from Sun: 1.7 billion miles (2.7 billion km)
Atmospheric composition: 83% hydrogen, 15% helium, 2% methane
Core composition: methane ice?
Mass: 14.5 x Earth's mass
Diameter: 32,000 miles (51,488 km)
Temperature at cloud tops: -328 degrees F
Gravity: .89 x Earth's gravity
Discovered by: William Herschel in 1781
Tilt of axis: 98 degrees
Planetary symbol:
Missions: Voyager II
Uranus is 1 of 2 planets ( Venus is the other planet) that rotates in retrograde motion around it's axis. Uranus has a set of 13, very faint rings.
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