Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Uranus

This is me , Tama and Sarena are holding up an paper masha Uranus here is some imformation.Uranus, the first planet discovered in modern times, was discovered by William Herschel while systematically searching the sky with his telescope on March 13, 1781. It had actually been seen many times before but ignored as simply another star (the earliest recorded sighting was in 1690 when John Flamsteed cataloged it as 34 Tauri). Herschel named it "the Georgium Sidus" (the Georgian Planet) in honor of his patron, the infamous (to Americans) King George III of England; others called it "Herschel". The name "Uranus" was first proposed with the other planetary names from classical mythology but didn't come into common use by Bode in conformity until 1850.

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