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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third largest of the Solar System. |
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| Uranus was the first to be discovered in Modern Times, was discovered by Willian Herschel in 1781. | |||||||
| Uranus has a faint planetary ring system. | |||||||
| Distance from Sun : | 19.2 astronomical units. | 2.86 billion km. | |||||
| Days to complete orbit (1 year) : 84 Earth Years | Days to complete rotation : 17 Earth Hours 14 minutes | ||||||
| Mass 14.5 Earth 8.7x1025 kg. | Diameter 4.0 Earth (51,300 km) | ||||||
| Temperature : -220ºC | |||||||
| Density : 1.27 g/cm3 | Satellites : 27 | ||||||
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