Talk:Uranus
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Is there any way to pronounce the name of this planet, without feeling embarrassed? I saw your anus last night. Hmm. Maybe it's just a matter of maturity
- Try "yer an us".
- Yeah, put the stress on the first syllable not the second. I've heard people say it that way. -- Tim Starling 02:18 30 May 2003 (UTC)
- Apart from the fact that the first syllable of that is 'urine', I think that really, we should put both pronunciations up there.
Is there any (good) reason why, in the moons table, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon are in bold? -- looxix 10:06 Apr 7, 2003 (UTC)
- Not sure. Gotta ask the person who put that in. --PY
- I'd think it's because those are the five biggest, which were discovered by telescope before it started getting visits from probes. For instance, in my Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, dated 1988 (and not the most authoritative source for astronomical data, admittedly, which would explain why it doesn't include those a year or two after the Voyager visit), those are the only five moons listed for Uranus. -- John Owens 10:26 Apr 7, 2003 (UTC)
- make sense, thanks. -- looxix 11:03 Apr 7, 2003 (UTC)
- I'm the one who bolded them when I created the table, so yeah, I can confirm that that's the reason. They're the big ones. Bryan
Data check
- Revolution period 84y 3d 15.66h
- Synodic period 369.7 days
Are those the right way round? 'Synodic period' is the 'year', and revolution period is the 'day', right? Surely the outer planets have a much longer year than Earth, not just a few more days -- Tarquin 18:06, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- The synodic period is the time that it takes for the object to reappear at the same spot in the sky, relative to the sun, as observed from Earth. This is the time that elapses between two successive conjunctions with the sun and is the object's apparent orbital period. The synodic period differs from the sidereal period since Earth itself revolves around the sun. Since Uranus is very distant from the sun and is moving very slowly compared to Earth, however, the synodic period is only slightly larger than one Earth year. "Revolution" is usually used to mean the planet's motion around the Sun, whereas "rotation" is usually used to mean its day (for Uranus, Rotation period is -17h 14m). Looks alright to me. Bryan 01:17, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)