First:
Happy Uranus Day. It’s January 14th. That’s Uranus Day. Happy Uranus Day to you and yours.
Second:
Did you know the length of a day on Uranus is only 17 hours? That’s fast. That thing is moving.
Third:
Humans discovered Uranus in the 1700s after previously thinking of it, when we saw it, as a comet or a star. After a bit of disagreement, the name Uranus was chosen because Uranus is Saturn’s dad in Greek and Roman mythology, just as Saturn is Jupiter’s dad. One difference? Uranus is the Greek name for the deity. Saturn and Jupiter are Roman names. Had we really been consistent, Uranus would have been named Caelus. Instead, we got Uranus. I think it’s funny that scientists knew Greek and Roman mythology well enough to know of Uranus but poorly enough that they didn’t make the Uranus–Caelus connection. Astronomers’ confusion gave us an eternity of butthole jokes. What a solar system.
