What’s the Temperature of Uranus? – IOTW Report

What’s the Temperature of Uranus?

Thursday, 1 March 2018, 19:45 MJA Uncategorized 32

 

SPACE.com: The seventh planet from the sun, Uranus has the coldest atmosphere of any of the planets in the solar system, even though it is not the most distant. Despite the fact that its equator faces away from the sun, the temperature distribution on Uranus is much like other planets, with a warmer equator and cooler poles.

An icy atmosphere

Like Neptune, Uranus, discovered in 1781, is known as an “ice giant,” in a slightly different category from Saturn and Jupiter. Both planets boast frigid atmospheres made up of ice rather than gas.  MORE

h/t Snowball the Sourpuss.

32 Comments on What’s the Temperature of Uranus?

  6. We used to take out child’s temperature by sticking the thermometer in his ass/anus. That would be child abuse today. But as time went by I often had the urge to stick my boot up his ass. If you know what I mean/ Uppa Uranus.

  7. MJA is simply goading us with this post. Hahaha.

    OK. I’ll take the bait.

    Sounds like a perfect place for a frigid woman that wishes to be a monarch. She has a group of followers that are already prepared for chilly weather and have pink knit hats that would serve them well.
    Her husband fully supports her coronation and will gladly light the rocket that transports her to their future honeymoon suite.

    He just has a few loose ends to wrap up before he joins her. Very loose. With really nice rear ends.

  9. I always got a kick out of Carl Sagan’s reaction when someone would use the traditional pronunciation.
    He would get red-faced and kind of pissed as he used the studied “YUR-uhn-uss” pronunciation.
    I would have enjoyed annoying that pretentious twit with repeated questions about Uranus.

  11. Isn’t that the question Reggie always asked Barry ?
    Just before assuring him the temperature would be increasing in a few minutes. The anticipation made his ears wiggle in sync with his backside.

  12. My astronomy teacher always called that planet George.
    Initially, upon discovery, the astronomer named it after King George. Georgium.

    Plus he hated the snickering.

    H cubed, astronomy professor at GWU, Herman H Hobbs, was a great professor. And a funny guy.

  18. One last thing about H cubed. He spoke of the early days of radar and the H bomb of which he was intimately familiar. He’d seen birds fly through early microwave/radar. It made him wonder whether there could be a controlled atomic event that only effected the atoms they wished to split or whether all atoms would be split in an uncontrollable fashion.

    An inquisitive guy. Who received his answers through actual experience.

    Died in 2011, according to something I read. One of the great professors I enjoyed. Not many of those.

  26. I can’t help but think the temperature of ‘MY anus’ is directly related to the never-ending, inexcusable, endless BullShit of the liberal Assholes from the whinny, crying, despicable, divisive, communistic, hateful, putrid leftists.

  28. @Thirdtwin
    “…wouldn’t it have been better to say that the polar axis points toward the sun?”

    Not exactly. Like any planet, the axis of rotation always* points in the same direction. So for Uranus, picture the north pole pointing at the Sun**, then 42 (Earth) years later, the south pole points at the Sun.

    * Ignoring precession.
    ** 98 Deg, to be precise. Being greater than 90 Deg. also means it’s axial rotation is retrograde.

    Edit: Yes, I’m an astronomy and physics nerd.

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