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Uranus

            Uranus was the first planet to be discovered that you need a telescope to see clearly.   Telescopes reveal Uranus to be a bluish-green disk.  When it was first discovered, it was thought to be a comet.  It two months later that it was discovered to be a new planet.  Uranus has 11 well defined rings.  It also has 15 moons.   We only knew about 5 of them(Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon) before VOYAGER 2 in January,1986.  Uranus is made mostly of methane gas, it also contains some moleclular hydrogen, helium, and its atmosphere is made mostly of ammonia.

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