What is the exact size of Uranus?

Uranus is the third largest planet in the Solar System. It has a diameter of 31,765 miles or 51,118 kilometers which is about four times the diameter of Earth. Uranus has a volume which is about 63 times the volume of Earth which means that 63 Earths can fit inside Uranus.

What is the rotational angle of Uranus?

The ice giant is surrounded by 13 faint rings and 27 small moons as it rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. This unique tilt makes Uranus appear to spin on its side, orbiting the Sun like a rolling ball.

What is Uranus’s length of rotation and revolution?

Uranus: Planet Profile

Mass (kg) 8.68 x 1025
Average distance from Sun 19.19 AU (2,870,972,200 km)
Rotation period (length of day in Earth days) 0.72 (17.9 Earth hours)(retrograde)
Revolution period (length of year in Earth days) 30,685 (84 Earth years)
Obliquity (tilt of axis degrees) 97.9

What is the size of the Uranus core?

0.55 Earth masses
The core is relatively small, with a mass of only 0.55 Earth masses and a radius less than 20% of Uranus’; the mantle comprises its bulk, with around 13.4 Earth masses, and the upper atmosphere is relatively insubstantial, weighing about 0.5 Earth masses and extending for the last 20% of Uranus’s radius.

What is the size and diameter of Uranus?

50,724 km
Uranus/Diameter

Why is Uranus so big?

The seventh planet from the sun, Uranus is the larger of the ice giants. “Part of the reason we call them ice giants is because they actually have a lot of water ice. So, while some of the other gas giant planets are mostly hydrogen and helium, they’re predominately water and other ices.”

Why is Uranus rotation different?

Unlike the other planets of the solar system, Uranus is tilted so far that it essentially orbits the sun on its side, with the axis of its spin nearly pointing at the star. This unusual orientation might be due to a collision with a planet-size body, or several small bodies, soon after it was formed.

How would you describe the rotation of Uranus?

How would you describe the rotation of Uranus? A: Its rotation axis is very similar to Earth’s, tilted at about 23 degrees relative to perpendicular.

What is the length of 1 year on Uranus?

84 years
Uranus/Orbital period

Is Uranus the biggest or smallest planet?

To ensure that the list stays stuck, just think of something along the lines of “Mercury Met Venus Every Night Until Saturn Jumped.” Essentially, this indicates that the size of the planets in order from smallest to largest is Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter.

What planet is the same size as Uranus?

Neptune
Neptune is slightly smaller than Uranus, but still very large. The planet has a diameter of 49,500 km. You could fit 57.7 Earths inside Neptune, which has a volume of 6.25 x1013 km3.

How is the rotational axis of Uranus tilted?

Uranus’ rotational axis is strongly tilted on its side (97.9°). Instead of rotating with its axis roughly perpendicular to the plane of its orbit (like all the other planets in our Solar System), Uranus rotates on its side (along its orbital path). This tipped rotational axis gives rise to extreme seasons on Uranus.

How big is Uranus compared to the Earth?

Uranus’ mass is about 8.68 x 10 25 kg. This is about 14 times the mass of the Earth. The gravity on Uranus is only 91% of the gravity on Earth. This is because it is such a large planet (and the gravitational force a planet exerts upon an object at the planet’s surface is proportional to its mass and to the inverse of its radius squared).

What are the Rings of the planet Uranus made of?

Uranus has a belt of 11 faint, narrow rings composed of rock and dust. They circle Uranus is very elliptical orbits. These rings are only a fraction of the size of Saturn’s rings, and were only discovered in 1977.

What is the mass and acceleration of Uranus?

Bulk parameters Mass (10 24 kg) 86.813 5.9724 14.54 Gravity (eq., 1 bar) (m/s 2) 8.87 9.80 0.905 Acceleration (eq., 1 bar) (m/s 2) 8.69 9.78 0.889 Escape velocity (km/s) 21.3 11.19 1.903 GM (x 10 6 km 3 /s 2) 5.7940 0.39860 14.54