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Not much. It is the farthest planet that can be seen with the naked eye.


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"Well known" is difficult to quantify, however interesting facts are:

  • It was discovered in in 1690 by John Flamsteed however he thought it was asar.who at the time did not realize it as a planet, but rather another star (he labeled it 34 Tauri). Thereafter, it was frequently observed but disregarded and ignored. However, on March 13, 1781, an astronomer named
  • William Herschel determined it was planet in 1781
  • The original name was "Herschel"but in 1850 it was called Uranus
  • Uranus has a ring system like Saturn
  • The density of Uranus is 1.27 g/cm³, just 25% more than water
  • It has Uranus 27 known moons.


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when Hercules (Herakles in Greek) wanted some golden apples for Hera (Juno in Roman) from the daughters of Uranus (Oureanus in Greek). Hercules asked Uranus to get them while Uranus went to get them Hercules held up the sky and and Uranus's plan was to get Hercules to hold the sky forever when Uranus came back , Hercules quickly threw the sky on Uranus and Hercules took the apples. Uranus swore he would get revenge Hercules show him Medusa's severed head which still works and Uranus be came a mountain

Oh wait that's atlas we all know about Uranus is that his own mother/spouse (Gaea) convinced her own kid (Kronos) to attack him and another one is that at the sight of his kids the Cyclopes and the hundred-handed ones he sent to Tarturus (a prison in the under world) for a time out.

By the way, Uranus is the father of Aphrodite (Venus), goddess of love and beauty, the eldest out of all Olympian god/ goddess. He is the sky.

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Uranus is the greek name and the only planet to actually have a greek name for a title.

The roman name is also the same.

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the myth is that there are blue clouds around uranus

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Uranus is actually a Roman God, his Greek counterpart is Hades, God of the Underworld.

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urans was god of the world without him nobody would be alive in greek mythology.

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Uranus is the name of the earliest Greek god. He was mate and son of Gaia, Mother Earth, and father of the Titans and the Cyclopes.

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None. Uranus is not populated so this means that there can not be any myths and legends on the planet since no one lives there.

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Uranus was a roman god, not a greek god.

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