Planets {Uranus, planet} can be seventh nearest to Sun and third-largest planet.
properties
Diameter is 50,000,000 meters. Mass is 14.5 times Earth mass. Density is 1.6 g/cm^3, because it is 15% hydrogen. Gravity is 1.17 of Earth gravity.
properties: rotation
Uranus rotates every 11 hours on axis almost parallel to orbit plane, 82 degrees to vertical, in opposite direction from Earth direction.
properties: temperature
Surface temperature is 70 K.
properties: orbit
Uranus is 2,860,000,000,000 meters from Sun. Circular orbit of 84 years is in ecliptic.
layers
Rocky core is 16,000,000-meter diameter, at 4000 K and surface pressure 2 x 10^6 atmosphere. Ice layer is 8,000,000 meters thick. Around that layer is molecular hydrogen. Uranus has solid-methane outer layer.
atmosphere
Atmosphere has hydrogen, helium, and methane. Uranus has greenish color.
moons
Uranus has five moons.
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