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Showing Original Post only (View all)On this day in 1781, William Herschel discovered the planet [View all]
Uranus.
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I actually got to see Uranus during my astronomy lab last year.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Mar 2019
#4
It wouldn't be able to maintain its orbital relationship because of Jupiter.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Mar 2019
#8
I don't understand why something like Voyager couldn't see the mirror Earth?
mr_lebowski
Mar 2019
#27
Okay, so it's just because the path they were on wouldn't allow it, not that it's
mr_lebowski
Mar 2019
#34
I just brought it up cause I thought it was said above that it would be impossible to see a ME even
mr_lebowski
Mar 2019
#39
My professor taught only one theory of solar system formation in the astronomy class
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Mar 2019
#35
There is strong suspicion that there's a Planet 9 very far out, past the Kuiper Belt.
lagomorph777
Mar 2019
#14
Uranus is the smallest gas giant in the solar system and the farthest out normally.
Blue_true
Mar 2019
#20
I think "Uranus" was a nickname for George III; he thought it was "Your Highness"
lagomorph777
Mar 2019
#15