Uranus By: Tucker Baker

Diameter of Uranus Diameter is Kilometers: 51,200 If the sun was as big as a front door to an average house, Uranus is as big as a baseball next to the door. (1)

Distance from the Sun Uranus is about 2.9 billion Kilometers away from the sun. OR it is about 1.8 billion miles away from the sun. (1) Uranus is the 7th planet away from the sun

Year and Rotation For Uranus to complete one day it takes 17 hours on earth. (1) For Uranus to orbit around the sun once it takes 84 Earth years or one Uranian year. (1) Uranus showing the dark side of its rings in infared lighting. (3)

Orbital Tilt Uranus rotates from east to west on a nearly parralel to the orbital plane. (1) Uranus appears to be rotating on its side. This is because it may have hit another planet when finding its orbit. (1)

Density of Uranus The density of Uranus is 1.27 grams/cubic centimeter. Uranus is the second least dense planet in our solar system. Uranus is mostly made up of Hydrogen and Helium. It gets it blue color from the methane in the atmosphere. (1)

Life supporting Uranus cannot support life even though it has an atmosphere. There will be no aliens on Uranus!!

Uranus Satellites Uranus has 27 moons. All of its moons are named after characters from William Shakespeare and Alexander Popes works.

These are some of the Satellites that were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. (This picture is in false-color)

Space Expeditions The Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in January 1986. This is the only spacecraft to fly by Uranus. The Voyager 2 spacecraft caught 10 new moons on its flyby that we have never seen before. It also caught a large an d unusual magnetic field that we never experienced before. (6) This is a picture the Voyager 2 caught on camera on its visit. This is showing Uranus’ cresent. (6)

The End By: Tucker Baker Hopefully you learned something during this presentation. Thank you all! By: Tucker Baker

Bibliography http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/Archives/spring03/ahoehn/Website/Physical%20Characteristics.htm (Slide 3, Picture) http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Planets&IM_ID=10188 http://cjterminal.com (Slide 6, Picture) http://pintrest.com (Slide 7, Picture) http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/uranus.html