Planet Information for:
Uranus

Student Names: Courtney & April
Diameter:  51,000 km
Average Distance from Sun:  2.8 billion km
Surface Temperature:  -350 degrees F (-212 degrees C)
Length of Day:  
Length of Year: 84 earth years
Number of Moons:  17
Uranus, is the 7 planet from the sun.  Uranus has a faint ring system and 27 known moons, here's a fact you probably didn't know, in 1997 astronomers were shocked to find 2 new moons of Uranus.  Uranus is a very cold planet, the winds reach up to 375 miles (600 km) per hours, that's so cold.  Uranus is mostly made of ice and thick gases and did you know Uranus is blue-green through a telescope.

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