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Uranus

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Uranus

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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and has the most extreme axial tilt of any planet; it essentially rolls around the Sun on its side at 97.8 degrees. Its blue-green colour comes from methane in its atmosphere. Uranus was the first planet discovered with a telescope, by William Herschel in 1781.

Measurements

Equatorial diameter51.1 million m
2.6 millionWindmill heights
902,029Leaning Towers of Pisa
1.1 billionMatchsticks
Mass86.8 septillion kg
477 septillionApples
17.4 octillionUS nickels
620 septillionSyrian hamsters
Mean orbital speed6,800 m/s
20,606Crawling babies
13,600Slow shopping carts
2,720Jogging humans
Cloud-top temperature76 K
2.4 tenthsDog body temperatures
2.2 tenthsCar dashboards in summer

Minimum temperature at 1 bar level

Sidereal day length62,064 s
10,344Breaths
414Popcorn bags
18.8 octillionTime light crosses a proton

About 17 hours 14 minutes

Mean distance from the Sun2.9 trillion m
63.8 billionUnrolled toilet paper rolls
68.4 trillionWatch face widths
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