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Uranus - Wikipedia
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a ...
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Uranus used to be called George. The whole name is Georgium Sidus.
"Georgium Sidus" doesn't mean 'George', it means 'George's star'. If I say "I'm going over to George's house" you don't say "George is a weird name for
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Georgium Sidus - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Coined by German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel in 1781, after King George III + Latin sīdus (“star”).
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Georgium sidus
‖ Georgium sidus (ˈdʒɔːdʒɪəm ˈsaɪdəs) [mod.L. Geōrgium, neut. f. L. Geōrgius George + L. sīdus star.] One of the greater planets (now called Uranus), so named by its discoverer, Sir William Herschel, in honour of George III (see quot. 1783).1783 Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 2, I cannot but wish ...
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Why did Herschel name his planet Uranus? - StarChild - NASA
Herschel did not name the planet Uranus, he called it "the Georgium Sidus" (the Georgian Planet) in honor of King George III of England.
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A rose by any other name | The Planetary Society
Herschel, a devoted subject of England's King George III, suggested that the new planet be named Georgium Sidus, or George's Star. This went ...
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Mothstorm
Eventually the issue comes to Mrs Mumby's ears and she manages to convince the British government to send a ship to Georgium Sidus (Uranus) to investigate Sidus where they later come in contact with mer-people who live in the gas oceans.
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Uranus: Facts - NASA Science
William Herschel tried unsuccessfully to name his discovery Georgium Sidus after King George III. Instead, the planet was named for Uranus ...
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Georgium Sidus - YouTube
Uranus or "Georgium Sidus" is the seventh planet from the Sun. For English speakers, Uran-us or Ur-anus is the favourite of all planetary ...
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Letter, The name of a new planet [Uranus] is announced as ...
The name of a new planet Uranus is announced as Georgium Sidus; with a description of the same from William Herschel to Joseph Banks.
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Expanding the Boundaries of Man's Understanding
“Georgium Sidus whose distance is eighteen thousand millions of miles, and its magnitude eighty-nine times greater than our earth. In the meantime, the sun ...
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Uranus
Uranus Astr. (ˈjʊərənəs, jʊˈreɪnəs) [a. L. Ūranus, a. Gr. οὐρανός husband of Gæa (Earth) and father of Cronos (Saturn).] The most remote but two of the planets, situated between Saturn and Neptune. Discovered in 1781 by Sir Wm. Herschel, who named it ‘the Georgium sidus’, ‘the Georgian planet’. The ...
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Newton's Reflecting Telescope | Multiwavelength Astronomy
Herschel Reflecting Telescope: One night, using a reflecting telescope of his own design, William Herschel discovered an object moving across the sky. He first thought the object was a comet, but later discovered it was in fact a new planet that he would name Georgium sidus after King George III; astronomers would rename the planet Uranus, 50 years later.
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This minor planet was named in honour of the English astronomer of German origin William Herschel (1738–1822), who discovered what he called Georgium Sidus (aka Uranus).
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Georgian
▪ I. Georgian, a.1 and n.1 (ˈdʒɔːdʒɪən) [f. George + -ian.] A. adj. 1. a. Belonging to the time of the Georges, as Kings of Britain. spec. Of or resembling the style of architecture, esp. domestic architecture, characteristic of the reigns of the first four Georges (1714–1830). Georgian group, the n...
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