URANUS the Planet

Indian astrology studies about Uranus and narrating its specifications. Uranus is the seventh planet of the solar system, discovered in 1781, who initially took it for a comet. It had already been observed by John Flamsteed and included on one of his star maps, but Flamsteed worked on it and taken it as a star; it was not until Herschel measured the object’s motion more accurately that he was able to determine its true nature; he also identified two satellites, Titania and Oberon.

According to Indian astrology Uranus was the first new planet to be added to the complement known to the ancients, although talk of ‘‘the seven planets’’ had earlier been commonplace because the Sun and Moon were routinely counted in that company while the Earth was not. The discovery was celebrated in the pseudonymous political spoof, A Journey Lately Performed through the Air, in an Air Balloon, from this Terraqueous Globe to the Newly Discovered Planet.

Indian astrology says that Uranus’ diameter is less than half Saturn’s, but it is known as gas giant, although some theorists have suggested that it might have a solid silicate core covered by a deep liquid layer.

Physical characteristics

According to Indian astrology Uranus’s distance from the sun is about nineteen and a half times that of earth, has a volume 63.1 times the volume of the Earth a diameter of 1.60592 x 10⁵ km and with a mass fourteen times that of Earth, is the lightest of the outer planets. It has a smaller surface gravity, about 86% of Earth’s.

It has a much colder core than the other gas giants and radiates very little heat into space.

Indian astrology says that Uranus has no solid surface. 80% percent or more of Uranus is an extended liquid core of icy materials composed of water, ammonia and methane and higher density materials beneath.

Indian astrology narrates about its atmosphere is composed of mainly of hydrogen and helium and has a temperature of about -216 °C. Its atmosphere has small amounts of methane, water and ammonia. Uranus gets its blue-green color from a combination of light absorbed by the methane layer and light reflected by clouds beneath the methane. The sunlight passes through the methane, is then reflected by the clouds back through the methane layer where the red light portion of the spectrum is absorbed leaving only the blue-green spectrum to pass through, making the atmosphere appear blue-green.

Rotational characteristics

Indian astrology narrates Uranus Uniqueness among the planets, it orbits the Sun on its side with the poles pointing in the axial plane almost directly at the sun in the orbital plane; its axial tilt is over ninety degrees to the ecliptic.

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