Georgium Sidus was its name. There once was a heavenly body named as the "Star of George", the king of Great Britain, with the brightness of a sixth magnitude star. One day in 1781, a man named Herschel accidentally discovered the planet "Herschel", which people thought was Georgium Sidus. He knew that stars did not orbit the sun, and only planets did. Today, after a proposal by Bode, we call this misconceived star, "Uranus". Uranus was the name for the personified heaven of the Romans.

Uranus has a diameter of 31,763 miles, an orbit of 84 Earth years, and the rotating time of 17 hours and 54 minutes. The strangest and most unusual distinction of Uranus is that it tilts at a 98-degree angle to the plane of its orbit. This is almost on its side. Because of this weird characteristic, Uranus has a pole that always points to the sun, creating very strange and outrageous seasons. Many suspect that Uranus was bullied by something large and collided with it to produce this unusual tilt.

Uranus does not have as much hydrogen as its big brothers, Saturn and Jupiter, do, but it still keeps the gaseous characteristic of outer planets. Uranus has a lot of gas. Even though it is comprised of mostly hydrogen, helium and a hint of methane, there still is a rocky solid center that is hidden underneath all of Uranus's gases.

Uranus has a small ring system that circles the equator. This system consists of nine known rings that are very light and hard to see. A man named Elliot from the United States discovered Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon. Later on, four more rings were discovered. This is not the only thing that circles Uranus's equator. There are twenty-one moons that encircle the equator of Uranus. There are 5 irregular moons 16 regular moons. They shift to the west, from the east. Herschel, the man who founded Uranus as a planet, discovered Titania and Oberon, which is the largest moon. The moon named Miranda was discovered, and was thought to be the innermost planet, until recent studies contrasted with the ideal. Somebody by the name of Lassell discovered Umbriel and Ariel.

When we visit the small bluish-green planet, Perhaps, you will become the next famous person to rename it.