Uranus was named after the Roman God of the Heavens. It was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel using a homemade telescope. Uranus is 1.8 billion miles away from the sun. It's diameter is 32,300 miles. Uranus's day is 17 hours and it's year is 84 earth years. It has 15 moons and 11 rings. Uranus's atmosphere is made of Hydrogen and Helium. Uranus is on it's side, it could have been fliped by a large asteriod.
Uranus has 5 main moons. Here are their names and about them:
Miranda- It may have crashed into another body because it looks broken and then collected back.
