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Average distance from the Sun: 1,783,980,000 mi.
Diameter of the planet: 32,193 mi.
Uranus is a big blue planet.
It was discovered in 1781.
The gravity on Uranus is 79% that of the gravity on Earth.
One Uranus day is 17.2 hours.
One Uranus year is 84 Earth years.
Its major atmospheric gas is hydrogen.
Uranus spins on an axis this almost completely turned on its side; it is tilted at an angle of 82.1 degrees.
Uranus has ten rings and 15 moons.
The moons are named Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon.
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