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Popular Posters of Planet Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and the third largest (by diameter). Uranus is larger in diameter but smaller in mass than Neptune.
· orbit: 2,870,990,000 km (19.218 AU) from Sun
· diameter: 51,118 km (equatorial)
· mass: 8.683e25 kg
· satellites(27): Unlike the other bodies in the solar system which have names from classical mythology, Uranus' moons take their names from the writings of Shakespeare and Pope. Titania and Oberon are the largest moons.
Uranus is the ancient Greek deity of the Heavens, the earliest supreme god. Uranus was the son and mate of Gaia the father of Cronus (Saturn) and of the Cyclopes and Titans (predecessors of the Olympian gods).
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