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Score breakdown
· 6 badges
85 pts · Anomaly
Anomaly120 pts → Mythic
Major planet+40
Sprawling moon system+12
Thick atmosphere+12
Has a proper name+8
Has a ring system+8
Has moons+5
Total score85
35 more points to reach Mythic.
Badges
🔶Major planet· +40
🏷️Has a proper name· +8
⭕Has a ring system· +8
🌙Has moons· +5
🌜Sprawling moon system· +12
🌬️Thick atmosphere· +12
✨ Trivia
What it actually is
🛰️A system of its own. At least 28 moons orbit it — more a miniature solar system than a planet, and the count still climbs as surveys get sharper.
Sense of scale
🌍Against Earth. It is 4 times wider than Earth, and about 63.1 Earths would fit inside it.
🗺️Ground to cover. Its whole surface adds up to about 8.1 billion km² — roughly 54.3 times Earth's dry land.
🚶Walk around it. Walking right round its equator, eight hours a day, would take about 10.9 years.
Standing on it
🌫️Heavy air. A thick atmosphere presses down on the surface — the sky here is anything but empty.
💍Rings overhead. Its rings are billions of icy fragments, most no bigger than a house, spread into a sheet only tens of metres thick.
By the numbers
📐Size. About 50.7 thousand km across.
What's in a name
🏷️Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
aphelion au
20.096
color
#aee8e8
diameter km
50724
eccentricity
0.0473
inclination
0.773
name
Uranus
named
yes
num moons
28
orbital period days
30688.5
perihelion au
18.2823
radius km
25362
rings
yes
semi major au
19.1892
thick atmosphere
yes
About Uranus
Uranus is an anomaly planet. It completes an orbit every 30,688.5 days and swings within 18.282 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
At least 28 moons orbit it — more a miniature solar system than a planet, and the count still climbs as surveys get sharper.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Uranus is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Uranus is an anomaly planet
Uranus scores 85 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 35 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Major planet, Has a proper name, Has a ring system, Has moons, Sprawling moon system and Thick atmosphere — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.
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