Its name often generates juvenile humor when it is wrongly pronounced like a body part.
(It's correctly pronounced YUR'-uh-nus.)
"No one laughs when I say Uranus," NASA's Green said.
in before the inevitable ‘humor’..
I have read that they were ad libbing that scene!................
As a freeper educated me on Herschel originally wanted to name the planet after King George III. Too bad that name did not stick. Out of all the gods, they chose the Latinized name of the Greek god. They should have just went with the Roman version Caelus.
“A big space crash likely made Uranus lopside”
A little Preparation H should fix that.
Caused by the Klingons for sure
Urus... Anus...
I’m just here for the jokes.
A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided
Something pounded Uranus
#Uranus
Fry: Oh, man, this is great! Hey, as long as you don’t make me smell Uranus.
[He laughs.]
Leela: I don’t get it.
Farnsworth: I’m sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all..
Fry: Oh. What’s it called now?
Farnsworth: Urectum.
Biggus ——— ?
botched lipo?
The article’s author is unclear on the definition of “lopsided” as merely spinning axially in a different direction than other planets in the same star system does not qualify as being “lopsided.” For Uranus to be lopsided, it would need to have a shape distinctly and significantly different from one side to the other, so much that one side was lower than the other. That is not the case. Like most solar planets, Uranus is an oblate spheroid. . . And is essentially the same on all opposite sides.
So much for scientific accuracy.
“It’s also possible that the big object that knocked over Uranus is still lurking in the solar system too far for us to see, “
Neptune smashed Uranus.
Neptune has some oddities itself indicating a large collision, and it has chemical markers indicating it formed sunward of Uranus.
“Get it? Uranus?”
That kid in ET.
BTW, you-RAY-nus is the correct pronounciation, it's right out of the Greek original. AFAIK, no one pulled the "YER-en-nus" crap until Carl Sagan. Apparently he also invented a "correct" pronounciation of Halley's Comet, which is generally pronounced "HAY lee's" in the US. NO WHERE is it pronounced "HAL ee" apart from Sagan boosters and wannabees (and the entertainment industry nitwits on The Big Bang Theory); in England, Edward Halley's name is correctly pronounced "HALL ee" making it "Hall ee's Comet" there.