How Did Uranus Get its Name?

Universe Today ^ | 20 Mar , 2017 | Fraser Cain

[BenLurkin]

Who Discovered Uranus?

http://www.universetoday.com/18886/discovery-of-uranus/

[Scrambler Bob]

Moon was already taken.

[roadcat]

What does the star ship Enterprise and toilet paper have in common?

They both go into deep space? And they come back with dark matter? Of course, some would think they go where no man has gone before, but that was before we were made aware of LGBT agendas.

[central_va]

Uranus should be the name of a brown planet and not a blue one.

[Scrambler Bob]

What is the difference between bathroom curtains and toilet paper?

[central_va]

See post 9

[a fool in paradise]

[ameribbean expat]

“March 13th, 1781, when William Herschel observed it from his garden house in Bath,”

Garden house in Bath beats observing Uranus in a bath house in Garden...

[BBB333]

...and he lives next door to my cousin Hop Sang.

[Rufii]

And it’s pronounced You-Rain-Us

That's how I and everyone I know pronounces it, despite National Public Radio commentators insisting that it's pronounced "urine-us."

[BenLurkin]

[hanamizu]

Actually the “correct” pronunciation is Ur’ an us, not Ur an’ us. But since every school teacher I ever had pronounced it the second way, that is how I (and probably all of you) said it. Both are pretty much accepted, but the pros use the first.

Uranus was the Greek god of the heavens, father of Saturn.

[rsobin]

OMG...a black hole.

[Vendome]

Yeah. Distant cousin of I.P. Freely, who lives down by the Yellow River...

[BenLurkin]

Large floor mosaic from a Roman villa in Sassoferrato, Italy....
Aion (Uranus), the god of eternity, stands
above Tellus (Gaia) and her four children (the seasons).
Credit: Wikipedia Commons/Bibi Saint-Poi

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Should have named it Caelus if they were going to keep the Roman pantheon tradition going.

[ETL]

Does Uranus emit gas?

[Fightin Whitey]

Mine is “Brother-in-Law.”

Self-explanatory.

[CARTOUCHE]

The Taint was already taken?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Since they’re all named after Greek gods I suppose it was natural to do so?

The other planets are named after Roman gods (and Saturn the Titan), not their Greek equivalents. Uranus was the Greek god of the sky, as I remember - the father of Kronos and the grandfather of Zeus. They might have named it after Minerva.