planets  8 planets of the solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) and their satellites. sun The Sun is in 2/3 of the galactic center towards the edge, at a distance of 30 000 light years of the center. The Sun moves in a speed of 230 km/s around this galactic center during its revolution which it makes in 250 million years. galaxies The Galaxy, it is the name datum in our galaxy, it is an enormous spiral wheel of stars, a diameter of 100 000 light years. What appears of the Earth, it is a white continuous band called the Milky Way. bigbang There is 15 billion years a tremendous explosion of light gives birth to the space, in time, in the matter, a chaos burning with an inconceivable heat, a formless porridge which is going to swell, to extend in all the directions and to cool quite slowly. quotations Some quotations of big men (Aristote, Galilee, Newton, Platon, Laplace, Einstein). links Some external links concerning the astronomy.

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dwarf planets According to the definition which was approved on August 24th, 2006, during the 26th General assembly of the UAI ( International Astronomical Union), three bodies reach the status of dwarfish planet: Pluto, eris, and Ceres. Others objets should soon join this nomenclature. solar system The solar system is really much more complex if we take into account all the objects being a part of the system. A considerable number of objects is in the belt of Kuiper and still beyond in the cloud of Oort. galaxy groups Heap of galaxies are the biggest structures of the Universe. They are constituted by hundreds of galaxies connected together by their own gravitational attraction. Between the galaxies we find some material constituted by warm gas there, forming a plasma, the temperature of which reaches 10 to 100 million degrees. comets Besides planets, satellites and asteroids, the solar system contains comets (hair in Greek). The roaming comets originate in the depths of the space in several lights years. The number of periodic comets is of the order of 2000. biographies Some biographies, Einstein, Baade, Lyot, Hale, Hubble, Shapley, Laplace, Maxwell, Newton, Herschel, Kepler, Galilee, Aristotle... glossary Definition of certain words or expressions used on this site in link with the astronomy.

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| articles Christian's articles in link with the astronomy (history of the Earth, the electron, the neutrons stars, the rings of Saturn, the particles, the threat of asteroids, journey in the universe up to the atom)... exoplanets Exoplanets are situated by definition outside our solar system. Seen the large number of existing galaxies and the large number of stars which they contain, the search for these exo-planets or extra solar planets, is unlimited. constellations A constellation is a group of stars of the sky which enough close relations looked the appearance imagination of a figure onto the sky. nebulas Of the Latin 'nebula' which wants to say cloud, clouds of gas and dusts in the middle of stars, nebulas are at the same moment active crèches and cemeteries of stars. These magnificence of the sky are lit by the stars which they contain or by stars situated behind them. telescopes A telescope is constituted by a mirror which concentrates the light resulting from the observed celestial body and from the objective which supplies an enlarged image with it. The increase and the luminosity are proportional on the surface of the mirror. The presence of the ground atmosphere limits the performances of a telescope. It is to mitigate this inconvenience that spatial telescopes were placed in the space. bibliographies Some interesting books in link with the astronomy. faq Some simple answers concerning the universe which surrounds us.

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| asteroids Numerous small rocky called bodies asteroids are present in the solar system, an important part of them circulate in a ring, between the orbit of Mars and that of Jupiter in 2 to 4 UA.

rings The rings of Saturn are one of more beautiful and of the most surprising spectacles of the solar system. That is why on July 1st, 2004, the spaceship Cassini-Huygens reduced its speed to be captured by the gravity of Saturn to enter in orbit with this one. stars A star is a celestial body similar to the Sun, which shines thanks to nuclear reactions which occur in its center. multiverse The universe is an expanding cosmic bubble. This bubble creates a new bubble which produces it the others etc.... Quantities of the other universes which give birth to the other universes, it is an interesting idea but which remain at the moment very speculative. space probes These instruments that are space probes, perceive in the detail the forms and the composition of objects of the distant regions and offer us exceptional sights of an unequalled precision. elements The most usual and practical presentation of the diverse chemical elements is the periodic board of elements also called Table of Mendeleyev. The atoms which have the same number of protons but a number different from neutrons are called isotopes. aurora A polar aurora called aurora borealis in the north hemisphere and the aurora australis in the southern hemisphere, is a brilliant phenomenon characterized by sorts of veils extremely colored in the night-sky.

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Uranus

     

Mercury Mercury the first planet of the solar system in 57,9 million km of the sun is, its diameter is 4880 km.  Venus Venus the second planet of the solar system in 108,2 million km of the sun is, its diameter is 13000 km.  Earth Earth the third planet of the solar system in 149,6 million km of the sun is, its diameter is 12756 km.  Mars Mars the fourth planet of the solar system in 227,9 million km of the sun is, its diameter is 6800 km.  Jupiter Jupiter the fifth planet of the solar system in 778 million km of the sun is, its diameter is 143000 km.  Saturn Saturn the sixth planet of the solar system in 1427 million km of the sun is, its diameter is 120500 km.  Uranus Uranus the seventh planet of the solar system in 2870 million km of the sun is, its diameter is 51120 km.   Neptune Neptune the eighth planet of the solar system in 4496 million km of the sun is, its diameter is 49530 km. 
Moon Earth possess that a single natural satellite, the Moon which orbits in 160000 km of the earth.   satellites of Mars Mars possess 2 known natural satellites, Phobos and Deimos. They orbit near the planet, in some thousand kilometres of this one.   satellites of Jupiter Jupiter possess more than 60 known natural satellites, among which Ganymede, Io, Callisto, Europe and the others... 
  satellites of Saturn Saturn possess 59 known natural satellites, of which Titan, Rhea, Japet, Dioné, Thetys, Enceladus, Mimas, Hyperion, Phoebe, Janus, Epimethea, Promethea, Pandore and the others...  satellites of Uranus Uranus possess at least 27 known natural satellites, among which Titania, Oberon, Umbriel, Ariel...  satellites of Neptune Neptune possess tens of known natural satellites, of which Triton, Proteus, Larissa, Galatea, Despina, Nereid, Thalassa, Naiad...
 

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Uranus

     

category : planets


       

Uranus is hardly visible in the bare eye on very clear night, it appears, even with powerful instruments as under the shape of a small greenish disk. Uranus is the seventh planet of the solar system, a gaseous giant and the third in size. It was discovered on March 13th, 1781 by William Herschel. Its name comes from the god Uranus, Roman god of the sky, the equivalent of the Greek god Ouranos. It has an axis of rotation tilted to 98 ° (That of the Earth is 23,27 °, and that of the Jupiter of 3,22 °). Uranus is lying thus almost on its orbit.
Uranus is a gaseous huge planet, as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. In theory, it would consist of a solid nucleus of silicates and of iron about 7500 km in diameter, surrounded with a coat consisted of clouds of molecular hydrogen, of helium, methane and ammonia on a 10 000 km thickness, then a superficial layer of hydrogen and liquid helium, thickens 7600 km which bottom gradually in the atmosphere. Unlike Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus is not rather massive so that the hydrogen exists in the metal state around the nucleus.

 

 
Uranus    
semi major axis   2 870,99 millions de km
inclination of the axis   97,86°
mass   8,686x1025 kg
(14,5 times the earth)
equatorial diameter   51 118 km
polar diameter   49 946 km
discovered by   William Herschel
circumference   17 620 000 000 km
volume   69,142 x 1012 km3
albedo   0,51
escape velocity   21,3 km/s
     
         

La 7ème planète

     

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Uranus est la 7ème planète du système solaire et la 3ème plus grosse. C'est Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel qui la découvrit par accident le 13 Mars 1781 et il pensa tout d'abord avoir affaire à une comète. Uranus avait déjà été observée auparavant mais elle fut ignorée et cataloguée comme simple étoile (la première observation enregistrée d'Uranus date de 1690 lorsque John Flamsteed la catalogua comme l'étoile 34 Tauri). Après avoir correctement déterminé la nature de l'astre, Herschel l'appela la Planète Géorgienne en l'honneur du Roi d'Angleterre Georges III. Le nom Uranus fut tout d'abord proposé par Johan Elert Bode en conformité

 

avec les noms des autres planètes mais il ne fut communément admis qu'à partir de 1850. Uranus montrait des irrégularités dans son orbite autour du Soleil que ne pouvait expliquer la loi de la gravitation universelle. Il fallait une huitième planète pour expliquer ces irrégularités. Un verrou psychologique avait sauté, les dimensions du système solaire doublaient d'un seul coup. La plupart des planètes effectuent leur rotation sur un axe presque perpendiculaire au plan de l'écliptique mais l'axe d'Uranus est presque parallèle à ce plan. Uranus est principalement composée de roches et de glaces, avec seulement 15% d'hydrogène et un peu d'hélium, alors que Jupiter et Saturne sont presque entièrement composées

 

d'hydrogène. L'atmosphère d'Uranus est constituée d'environ 83% d'hydrogène, 15% d'hélium et 2% de méthane. La couleur bleue d'Uranus est le résultat de l'absorption de la lumière rouge par le méthane dans l'atmosphère supérieure. Uranus possède des anneaux comme les autres géantes gazeuses, découverts qu'en 1979. Ils sont très sombres comme ceux de Jupiter et composés de particules relativement grosses, jusqu'à 10 mètres de diamètre en plus des fines poussières, comme les anneaux de Saturne. Il y a 11 anneaux connus, tous très faibles, le plus brillant étant l'anneau Epsilon.

         
         

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Les 27 satellites d'Uranus

     

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Satellite

Distance (km)

Diamètre (km)

Masse (kg)

Découvert par

Commentaire

Date

Titania

436 000

1578

3.49×1021

Herschel

Reine des Fées dans Le songe d'une nuit d'été de Shakespeare

1787

Obéron

583 000

1523

3.03×1021

Herschel

Roi des fées dans dans Le songe d'une nuit d'été de Shakespeare

1787

Umbriel

266 000

1170

1.27×1021

Lassel

Personnage de The Rape of the Lock (La boucle de cheveux volée)d'Alexander Pope

1851

Ariel

191 000

1158

1,35×1021

Lassel

Génie aérien dans la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

1851

Miranda

130 000

472

6,6×1019

Gérard P.Kuiper

Fille du magicien Prospero dans la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

1948

Sycorax

12 179 000

190

5,4×1018

Philip D.Nicholson

Mère du monstre Caliban dans la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

1997

Puck

86 000

162

2,89×1018

Voyager 2

Esprit malfaisant dans la pièce de théâtre le Songe d'une nuit d'été de Shakespeare

1985

Portia

66 000

135

1,68×1018

Voyager 2

Riche héritière dans la pièce de théâtre le Marchand de Venise de Shakespeare

1986

Caliban

7 231 000

98

7,3×1017

Brett J. Gladman

Monstre dans la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

1997

Juliette

64 000

93

5,57×1017

Voyager 2

Tragique héroïne de la pièce de théâtre Roméo et Juliette de Shakespeare

1986

Belinda

75 000

80

3,57×1017

Voyager 2

Héroïne de la Boucle volée d'Alexander Pope

1986

Cressida

62 000

80

3,43×1017

Voyager 2

Fille de Calchas dans Troilus et Cressida de Shakespeare

1986

Rosalinde

70 000

72

2,54×1017

Voyager 2

Fille du Duc proscrit dans la pièce de théâtre Comme il vous plaira de Shakespeare

1986

Desdemone

63 000

64

1,78×1017

Voyager 2

Epouse d'Othello dans la pièce de théâtre Othello de Shakespeare

1986

Bianca

59 000

51

9,3×1016

Voyager 2

Sœur de Katherine dans la pièce de théâtre la Mégère apprivoisée de Shakespeare

1986

Ophélia

54 000

42

5,4×1016

Voyager 2

Fille de Polonius dans la pièce de théâtre Hamlet de Shakespeare

1986

Cordelia

50 000

40

4,5×1016

Voyager 2

Fille du roi Lear dans la pièce de théâtre le Roi Lear de Shakespeare

1986

Prospero

16 256 000

30

2,1×1016

Matthew Holman

Sorcier, duc de Milan dans la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

1999

Setebos

17 418 000

30

2,1×1016

John J.Kavelaars

Dieu vénéré par Caliban et Sycorax dans la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

1999

Stephano

8 004 000

20

6×1015

Brett J. Gladman

Majordome alcoolique dans la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

1999

Perdita

76 420

20

 

Erich Karkoschka

Personnage de la pièce Le conte d'hiver de Shakespeare

1999

Fransisco

4 276 000

12

 

Brett J. Gladman

Personnage de la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

2003

Ferdinand

20 901 000

12

   

Personnage de la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

2001

Margaret

14 345 000

11

 

Matthew Holman

Servante de Hero dans la pièce, Beaucoup de bruit pour rien de Shakespeare

2003

Cupidon

74 800

10

 

Mark Showalter

Personnage de la pièce Timon d'Athènes de Shakespeare

2003

Mab

97 734

10

 

Mark Showalter

Fée mentionnée dans la pièce de théâtre Roméo et Juliette de Shakespeare

2003

Triculo

8 504 000

10

 

Matthew Holman

Bouffon dans la pièce la tempête de Shakespeare

2001



planets  8 planets of the solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) and their satellites. sun The Sun is in 2/3 of the galactic center towards the edge, at a distance of 30 000 light years of the center. The Sun moves in a speed of 230 km/s around this galactic center during its revolution which it makes in 250 million years. galaxies The Galaxy, it is the name datum in our galaxy, it is an enormous spiral wheel of stars, a diameter of 100 000 light years. What appears of the Earth, it is a white continuous band called the Milky Way. bigbang There is 15 billion years a tremendous explosion of light gives birth to the space, in time, in the matter, a chaos burning with an inconceivable heat, a formless porridge which is going to swell, to extend in all the directions and to cool quite slowly. quotations Some quotations of big men (Aristote, Galilee, Newton, Platon, Laplace, Einstein). links Some external links concerning the astronomy.

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dwarf planets According to the definition which was approved on August 24th, 2006, during the 26th General assembly of the UAI ( International Astronomical Union), three bodies reach the status of dwarfish planet: Pluto, eris, and Ceres. Others objets should soon join this nomenclature. solar system The solar system is really much more complex if we take into account all the objects being a part of the system. A considerable number of objects is in the belt of Kuiper and still beyond in the cloud of Oort. galaxy groups Heap of galaxies are the biggest structures of the Universe. They are constituted by hundreds of galaxies connected together by their own gravitational attraction. Between the galaxies we find some material constituted by warm gas there, forming a plasma, the temperature of which reaches 10 to 100 million degrees. comets Besides planets, satellites and asteroids, the solar system contains comets (hair in Greek). The roaming comets originate in the depths of the space in several lights years. The number of periodic comets is of the order of 2000. biographies Some biographies, Einstein, Baade, Lyot, Hale, Hubble, Shapley, Laplace, Maxwell, Newton, Herschel, Kepler, Galilee, Aristotle... glossary Definition of certain words or expressions used on this site in link with the astronomy.

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| articles Christian's articles in link with the astronomy (history of the Earth, the electron, the neutrons stars, the rings of Saturn, the particles, the threat of asteroids, journey in the universe up to the atom)... exoplanets Exoplanets are situated by definition outside our solar system. Seen the large number of existing galaxies and the large number of stars which they contain, the search for these exo-planets or extra solar planets, is unlimited. constellations A constellation is a group of stars of the sky which enough close relations looked the appearance imagination of a figure onto the sky. nebulas Of the Latin 'nebula' which wants to say cloud, clouds of gas and dusts in the middle of stars, nebulas are at the same moment active crèches and cemeteries of stars. These magnificence of the sky are lit by the stars which they contain or by stars situated behind them. telescopes A telescope is constituted by a mirror which concentrates the light resulting from the observed celestial body and from the objective which supplies an enlarged image with it. The increase and the luminosity are proportional on the surface of the mirror. The presence of the ground atmosphere limits the performances of a telescope. It is to mitigate this inconvenience that spatial telescopes were placed in the space. bibliographies Some interesting books in link with the astronomy. faq Some simple answers concerning the universe which surrounds us.

 |

| asteroids Numerous small rocky called bodies asteroids are present in the solar system, an important part of them circulate in a ring, between the orbit of Mars and that of Jupiter in 2 to 4 UA.

rings The rings of Saturn are one of more beautiful and of the most surprising spectacles of the solar system. That is why on July 1st, 2004, the spaceship Cassini-Huygens reduced its speed to be captured by the gravity of Saturn to enter in orbit with this one. stars A star is a celestial body similar to the Sun, which shines thanks to nuclear reactions which occur in its center. multiverse The universe is an expanding cosmic bubble. This bubble creates a new bubble which produces it the others etc.... Quantities of the other universes which give birth to the other universes, it is an interesting idea but which remain at the moment very speculative. space probes These instruments that are space probes, perceive in the detail the forms and the composition of objects of the distant regions and offer us exceptional sights of an unequalled precision. elements The most usual and practical presentation of the diverse chemical elements is the periodic board of elements also called Table of Mendeleyev. The atoms which have the same number of protons but a number different from neutrons are called isotopes. aurora A polar aurora called aurora borealis in the north hemisphere and the aurora australis in the southern hemisphere, is a brilliant phenomenon characterized by sorts of veils extremely colored in the night-sky.

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