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Uranus is a 1990 French comedy-drama film with Gérard Depardieu about post-World War II recovery in a small French village, as the controlling French Communist Party tries to dispose of Pétain loyalists.
Puck—the largest inner moon of Uranus—was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 30 December 1985. It was given the temporary designation S/1985 U 1. [11]The moon was later named after the character Puck who appears in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a little sprite who travels around the globe at night with the fairies.
The moon is also designated Uranus I. [12] Orbit. Among Uranus's five major moons, Ariel is the second closest to the planet, ...
Antecedents of the planetary symbols are attested in the attributes given to classical deities. The Roman planisphere of Bianchini (2nd century, currently in the Louvre, inv. Ma 540) [2] shows the seven planets represented by portraits of the seven corresponding gods, each a bust with a halo and an iconic object or dress, as follows: Mercury has a caduceus and a winged cap; Venus has a ...
The length of a day on Uranus as measured by Voyager 2 is 17 hours, 14 minutes. [55] Uranus was shown to have a magnetic field that was misaligned with its rotational axis, unlike other planets that had been visited to that point, [56] [59] and a helix-shaped magnetic tail stretching 10 million kilometers (6 million miles) away from the Sun. [56]
YM Uranus is 119.60 metres (392 ft 5 in) long overall, with a beam of 16.90 metres (55 ft 5 in) and a depth of 8.40 metres (27 ft 7 in), with a draught of 6.80 metres (22 ft 4 in). She is assessed as 4,829 GT, 2,297 NT and 7,000 DWT.
Uranus is a tourist attraction in unincorporated rural Pulaski County, Missouri, United States, along the former U.S. Route 66 (US 66). [1] All businesses are owned by Louie Keen, who calls himself the "Mayor of Uranus".
In the 1990s, it was determined that Uranus and Neptune were a distinct class of giant planet, separate from the other giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn, which are gas giants predominantly composed of hydrogen and helium. [1] As such, Neptune and Uranus are now referred to as ice giants. Lacking well-defined solid surfaces, they are primarily ...