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Uranus
Uranus is a massive 2,870,000,000 km (1,783,000,000 miles) from the sun. time to get there from The nearest distance that Uranus gets to earth is a whopping 2,120,000,000 (1,690,000,000 miles)! The average temperature of the clouds is –140oc (-220oF) – that’s coldddd! It's diameter across the equator is 52,000 km (32,000 miles) and the atmosphere is made up of hydrogen (H) and helium (He). Hydrogen makes up 84% of the atmosphere, He 14%, and 2% is of methane. The atmosphere is thought to be 10,000 km deep(6,200 miles) That is very deep! Summer and winter (believe it or not!) lasts 21 years. You could get a very large suntan in the summer!! No one has found out the numbers of moons that it is hiding, but the length of one day is 17 quarter hours, which makes a year being 84 earth years! Astronomers discovered the blue planet in 1977 and found that it had a set of very narrow rings. Uranus sits on an axis of 98o angle. Its mass is an amazing 14.6 times earth’s mass.
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