Uranus up close: Giant ice planet set to be its closest to Earth tonight and will be visible [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | Ocrtober 19, 2017 | Cheyenne MacDonald

[C19fan]

You might not need a telescope to spot Uranus tonight. The ice giant planet will reach opposition on Thursday, bringing it to the closest point in its orbit to Earth. In this position, the blue-green planet will be visible in the sky all night long – and, while you’ll definitely be able to see it with binoculars, NASA says Uranus may even be bright enough to see with the naked eye.

[Beowulf9]

“If Uranus is close enough to see with the naked eye, that’s way too close, mate”.

Oh,man. This post cracked me up.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I am on strike until they give Pluto back its rightful title of Planet! 😏

[Hat-Trick]

That’s what Barney Frank said.

[hal ogen]

Uranus ? Gas giant ? Something smells about this.

[wyowolf]

damn, now Im curious...

[FlipWilson]

Whopdeedo, I see Uranus on tv every night when they show Hillary on the news.

[pinkandgreenmom]

Have you seen the tshirt that says this?

Dear NASA:

Your mom thought I was big enough.

-Pluto

[real saxophonist]

Gustav Holst - Uranus

[SandRat]

Oh, the bad Uranus jokes, that will be posted.

[Mr. K]

Uranus? We changed that name so we could stop with the silly jokes.

Now it’s called Urectum.

[Mr. K]

So, there’s a lot of gas in Uranus?

[SkyShot]

Breaking: Rings of debris have been discovered around Uranus.

[originalbuckeye]

‘Your anus’ or ‘Urine-us’........neither works well. Who named this planet???

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I’m not interested in Uranus, as a whole.

[pax_et_bonum]

I know what is coming.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Uranus orbits at about 20 time the distance Earth does from the sun. That means that the difference between closest approach (conjunction) and most distant approach (oposition) is about 10%. Big wup.

[MPJackal]

FYI, there is a fudge company in Uranus, Missouri named the Uranus Fudge Factory. The fudge is good and they have some non-PC humor about it like “Proudly Packing Fudge in Uranus since 2015”, or “The best fudge comes from Uranus. Cracks me up.

http://shop.uranusmissouri.com

[Paladin2]

Does Uranus at night look like a hole in the ground?

[seawolf101]

Or maybe San Francisco

It took 20 posts to get to San Francisco on a thread about Uranus. It seems a bit slow to me. Even the ice jokes got in faster.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

This?

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54c_1319310704