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Scientist aren't sure yet but they have a theory that a huge comet or asteroid collided with the blue planet causing it to spin on its side.

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because a long time ago, an earth-sized object collided with it and made Uranus tilt sideways from that day on...:(

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A comet hit it billions of years ago.

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