[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yeah they named it for the most obscure god they could find.

Why not Quirinus?

[Verginius Rufus]

I'm sure there are a lot of Greek and Roman gods even more obscure than Quirinus. Quirinus is a provincial name, known to the Romans but not to the Greeks...the other planets bore name of important gods so Bode probably felt he had to follow suit.

Bode found that earlier astronomers had noted the location of Uranus without realizing that the object they were looking at was a planet...the earliest example was in 1690 when Flamsteed entered it on a chart as a star in the constellation Taurus, 34 Tauri.

So we could call Uranus "34 Tauri" (or Triginta Quattuor for short).