Planet - Uranus

Today in Astronomy History
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July 3, 1841
John Couch Adams decides on this date to determine the position of an unknown planet by examining the irregularities in the motion of Uranus. It takes him 4 years to do the work.

July 3, 2006
Asteroid named 2004 XP14 flies within 268,624 miles of Earth.

Welcome to Planet Uranus
A website about the planet Uranus

Named after the Greek god of the sky, Uranus is a gas giant which is visable to telescopic viewing. The Uranus was the first planet discovered in modern (non-classical) times by Sir William Herschel on March 13, 1781. It is also the first planet discover with a telescope as opposed to the naked eye.