[BenLurkin]

Here it is, the one so many of you have been waiting for....

[left that other site]

Too Easy! LOL!

[GeronL]

All of these worlds are yours, except Uranis, attempt no landing there. Really, it kind of smells.

[EvilCapitalist]

Where are the Klingons, or the ass-teroids?

[Boogieman]

Ah, finally, a deep, probing, article about Uranus!

[BigEdLB]

It has a moon named “Puck”. That says it all.

[dware]

My wife said something similar to this the other night. I don’t know that she was referring to Uranus, though...

[WayneS]

Gas is not just an issue with Uranus - in fact, I think everyone's anus has gas problems at some point in their lives...

[UCANSEE2]

“Though it can be seen with the naked eye, the realization that Uranus is a planet was a relatively recent one. Though there are indications that it was spotted several times over the course of the past two thousands years, it was not until the 18th century that it was recognized for what it was.”

Wasn’t astrology around in 2000 BC and didn’t they already know about all the planets ?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

How about changing it’s mane to Urectum?

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/a6o404/futurama-smelloscope

[moehoward]

[SES1066]

As big as Neptune and Uranus are, they are still too small to have the gravity-pressure to form metallic Hydrogen in the mantle like Saturn and Jupiter.

AND to join the frivolity here, Uranus is also unique in that its axis is 90 degrees off plane so instead of spinning around in its orbit, it just keeps on rolling along!

[CondorFlight]

“in 128 BCE”

IE, “before the Common Era”.

this avoids having to say, “Before Christ” (which, if he was who he said he was, was a far more important division of time than anything else)

[Noumenon]

Wrapped in clouds of methane. Right. Got it.

[Noumenon]

I’ve been called a gas giant from time to time...

[Huskrrrr]

Phew! That wing of the solar system is now CLOSED!

[OKSooner]

When I was in the 4th grade, Mrs. Tibbits drilled the entire class, one at a time each until we all got it right:

Uranus. Uranus. Uranus.

I never had a problem with the other pronunciation (picture here 30 little kids with Oklahoma accents all saying it the other way in science class to get the full effect...) myself and didn't understand why she had to be so emphatic and intractable about it...

One of the two best teachers I ever had, depending on the conversation.

[jmacusa]

It’s up... Uranus!

[jmacusa]

Here’s the kicker: Uranus(*chuckle*) rotates on it’s side, having been whacked into early in it’s history by some massive object. So my questions are, how does a sphere have a side and how do you knock a gaseous object on it’s side?

[SunkenCiv]

> It is also the third largest planet in our Solar System, ranking behind Jupiter and Saturn.

It isn’t. It’s ‘only’ 84.8% the mass of Neptune.

[cripplecreek]

Juno will arrive at Jupiter next summer.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html