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A giant planet with a ring of ice particles
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uranus
Alternative clues for the word uranus
- Discovery of March 13, 1781
- Penultimate planet
- Seventh of nine, in space
- Vessel not closing, opening for god
- Heavenly discovery of 1781
- Herschel discovered it
- For all to see, what FDR did for the world
- (Greek mythology) god of the heavens
- Ancient city originally associated by students with a mythological god
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Uranus is a French novel written by Marcel Aymé and published in 1948. It is the third book in a trilogy which cover the pre-war, the war and the post-war periods in France. The first is Travelingue (1948) set in the time of the Front Populaire . The second ...
Usage examples of uranus.
The great shipyards beyond the orbit of Uranus fashioned the comet-grown lumber into starships, space stations, habitats, intrasystem linerseverything except the small craft designed for atmospheric reentry.
Ask him for a story about extraterrestrials from Uranus who reproduce by binary fission and I imagine he would have three different sets of xeroxes in your hand the next day.
Imagine Uranus well aspected to Mars, to Mercury, to the Moon, to Jupiter, to Venus.
It's hard to imagine because Uranus functions best when it is badly aspected, when it is "afflicted", so to speak.
Yet that music which I gave off Sunday mornings, a music of well-being and of well-nourished desperation, was born of an illogically well-aspected Uranus firmly anchored in the 7th House.
Spirit and I accepted this with equanimity, because Helvetia, colonized by the historic Switzerland, was to be our host country during our stay at Uranus.
The Cray Cherubs, the Lost Teeshirts of Atlantis, Astro Laser and the Flying Starfish from Uranus, the Turbulent Priests, Sonic Energy Authority, Barisal Guns, Mike Petty sings Hank Wangford.
Since the patterns of winking on and off were the same before and after occultation, this finding (and much subsequent work) has led to the discovery of nine very thin, very dark circumplanetary rings, giving Uranus the appearance of a bull's-eye in the sky.
To take one simple example: the name of the Indian god Varuna has been identified etymologically with that of the Graeco-Roman god Uranus (Greek, Ouranos), also a common noun for 'heaven'.
For example, our Oort Cloud seems to have been populated by gravitational ejections of icy worldlets from the vicinity of Uranus and Neptune.
The gravitational fields of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have flung them at such high speeds that they have broken the bonds that once tied them to the Sun.
Also the libations, as, a decoction of nightshade for Melancholia, or of Indian hemp for Uranus.
So the lovely comets that on occasion rouse us humans to wonder and to awe, that crater the surfaces of inner planets and outer moons, and that now and then endanger life on Earth would be unknown and unthreatening had Uranus and Neptune not grown to be giant worlds four and a half billion years ago.
On Uranus the magnetic axis and the axis of rotation are tilted away from each other by some 60 degrees.
No one yet understands why: Some have suggested that we are catching Uranus in a reversal of its north and south magnetic poles, as periodically happens on Earth.