Facts About Uranus, the Sideways Planet in 3D
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Uranus at a glance
If Earth were the size of a nickel, Uranus would be about as big as a softball.
- Order from the Sun
- 7th of 8
- Type
- Ice giant
- Distance from the Sun
- 2,867 million km (19.16 AU)
- Diameter
- 51,118 km (4.01× Earth)
- Length of day
- 17.2 hours (spins backward)
- Length of year
- about 84 Earth years
- Moons
- 29
- Rings
- Yes
- Average temperature
- -195 °C (-319 °F)
- Gravity
- 89% of Earth's
- Axis tilt
- 97.8°
- Sunlight takes
- 2 hours and 40 minutes
On Uranus you would weigh about 71 (89% of your Earth weight). Your mass stays the same; only gravity changes.
Source: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet and NASA Science. Giant planets have no solid surface; gravity is given at the cloud tops.
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