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To: Red Badger
I’m reading this as I eat my breakfast cereal, lol.

In the cartoon Futurama, the Professor states that scientists changed the name of Uranus because of all the childish jokes. What did they rename it? Urectum.

The first serious set of star charts I acquired many years ago is called Uranometria 2000.They don’t have any smell, lol.

30 posted on 02/07/2025 6:43:08 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: telescope115
The Greek word ouranos means heaven or the sky, but also the god Ouranos, the father of the Titans. Uranus is the Latin spelling. So Uranometria makes sense as a set of charts of the sky.

Maybe we should just spell the planet's name Uranos.

31 posted on 02/07/2025 8:39:00 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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