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Uranus comparison table

Subject	has surface temperature	has orbital period	is an instance of	has inclination	has mean density	has rotation period	has eccentricity	has albedo	has oblateness	has radiu	has obliquity	has synodic period	has mean distance from Sun	has atmosphere composition	has surface gravity	has orbital velocity	has discoverer	has satelite	has composition	is a kind of	has mass	has maximum brightness	has synonym	has definition	has discovery date	has escape velocity
gas giant																			Mostly made of various light elements such as gases and simple compounds	planet	greater than Pluto's mass and less massive than ten times Jupiter's mass		Jovian planet	Giant planet that has a gaseous surface.
superior planet																			various elements	planet	greater than Pluto's mass and less massive than ten times Jupiter's mass			Planets farther from the Sun than the Earth is (i.e., Mars to Pluto).
Uranus	110 K	84.0 years	superior planet	i = 0°.8	1.21 g cm-3	10h49m26s	e = 0.04	0.66	0.07	25400 km	97°.9	369.66 days	19.18 AU	H2 and CH4	0.96 Earth's	6.8 km s-1	Herschel	5 major ones, all of which orbit in its equatorial plane	Mostly made of various light elements such as gases and simple compounds		8.78 × 1028 g	+5.7 mag	Jovian planet	Seventh planet from the Sun. Has retrograde rotation.	March 13, 1781	22 km s-1

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