Discovered By William Herschel

Date of Discovery 13 March 1781

Orbit Size Around Sun (semi- Metric: 2,870,658,186 km
major axis) English: 1,783,744,300 miles
Scientific Notation: 2.8706582 x 109 km (1.9189165 x 101 A.U.)
By Comparison: 19.189 x Earth
Perihelion (closest) Metric: 2,734,998,229 km
English: 1,699,449,110 miles
Scientific Notation: 2.73500 x 109 km (1.828 x 101 A.U.)
By Comparison: 18.593 x Earth
Aphelion (farthest) Metric: 3,006,318,143 km
English: 1,868,039,489 miles
Scientific Notation: 3.00632 x 109 km (2.010 x 101 A.U.)
By Comparison: 19.766 x Earth
Sidereal Orbit Period (Length of 84.016846 Earth years
Year) 30,687.15 Earth days
By Comparison: 84.017 x Earth
Orbit Circumference Metric: 18,026,802,831 km
English: 11,201,335,967 miles
Scientific Notation: 1.803 x 1010 km
By Comparison: 19.180 x Earth
Average Orbit Velocity Metric: 24,477 km/h
English: 15,209 mph
Scientific Notation: 6.7991 x 103 m/s
By Comparison: 0.228 x Earth
Orbit Eccentricity 0.04725744
By Comparison: 2.828 x Earth
Orbit Inclination 0.77 degrees
Equatorial Inclination to Orbit 97.8 degrees (retrograde rotation) (retrograde rotation)
By Comparison: 4.173 x Earth
Mean Radius Metric: 25,362 km
English: 15,759.2 miles
Scientific Notation: 2.5362 x 104 km
By Comparison: 3.9809 x Earth
Equatorial Circumference Metric: 159,354.1 km
English: 99,018.1 miles
Scientific Notation: 1.59354 x 105 km
By Comparison: 3.9809 x Earth
Volume Metric: 68,334,355,695,584 km3

Scientific Notation: 6.83344 x 1013 km3

By Comparison: 63.085 x Earth
Mass Metric: 86,810,300,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
Scientific Notation: 8.6810 x 1025 kg
By Comparison: 14.536 x Earth's
Density Metric: 1.270 g/cm3
By Comparison: 0.230 x Earth
Surface Area Metric: 8,083,079,690 km2
English: 3,120,894,516 square miles
Scientific Notation: 8.0831 x 109 km2
By Comparison: 15.847 x Earth
Surface Gravity Metric: 8.87 m/s2
English: 29.1 ft/s2
By Comparison: If you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 91
pounds on Uranus.
Escape Velocity Metric: 76,968 km/h
English: 47,826 mph
Scientific Notation: 2.138 x 104 m/s
By Comparison: 1.911 x Earth
Sidereal Rotation Period (Length -0.718 Earth days (retrograde)
of Day) -17.23992 hours (retrograde)
By Comparison: 0.72 x Earth

Descubrimiento

Descubridor

William Herschel

Fecha

13 de marzo de 1781

Designaciones

Se le denomina

jrens (?i)1 23

Elementos orbitales

Longitud del nodo

73.989 821

ascendente

Inclinacin

0.772 556 a la Eclptica

6.48 al ecuador del Sol
1.02 al Plano invariable4

Argumento del

96.541 318

periastro

Semieje mayor

2.876.679.082 km
19.229 411 95 UA

Excentricidad

0.044 405 586

Anomala media

142.955 717

Elementos orbitales derivados

poca

J20005 nota 1

Periastro operihelio

2.748.938.461 km
18.375 518 63 UA

Apoastro oafelio

3.004.419.704 km
20.083 305 26 UA

Perodo orbitalsideral 30.799.095 das

84.323 326 aos
42.718 das solares6
Con un da sideral de 0.718 33 das
17 h 14 min 24 s7

Perodo

369.66 das8

orbitalsindico

Velocidad

6.81 km/s8

orbital media

Radio orbital medio

19.19126393UA
2.87097221012 m
Con un radio ecuatorial de 25,559 4 km
4.007 Tierras7

Satlites

27 conocidos

Caractersticas fsicas

Masa

8.6861025 kg
14.5406455069 Tierras.

Volumen

6.8331013 km38 nota 2

63.086 Tierras. Destaca su achatamiento
de 0.022 9 0.000 8nota 3

Densidad

1.27 g/cm38

rea de superficie

8.115 6109 km29

15.91 Tierras

Dimetro

51.118 km

Dimetro angular

3.4 y 3.7 arco segundos10

Gravedad

8.69 m/s28
0.886 g

Velocidad de escape

21.3 km/s8

Periodo de rotacin

-17h 14m
(movimiento retrgrado)

Inclinacin axial

97.777

Magnitud absoluta

5.910 a 5.328

Albedo

0.300 (Bond)
0.51 (geom.)8

Composicin corteza

Vanse datos como el radio polar de

24,973 20 km
3.929 Tierras7

Caractersticas atmosfricas
Presin
Temperatura

Composicin

120 kPa11 12 13 14
Mnima
Media
Mxima
Nubes
Hidrgeno
Helio
Metano

59 K (-214,2 C)
68 K (-205,2 C)
N/A K
55 K (-218,2 C)12
83%
15%
1,99%

Amonaco
Etano
Acetileno
Monxido de carbono
Sulfuro de hidrgeno
Hidrgeno
deuterido (HD)15
Cuerpo celeste
Anterior

Saturno

Siguiente

Neptuno

Comparacin con la Tierra

0,01%
0,00025%
0,00001%
Trazas
Trazas

clc; clear all;

%parametros:
M=1.9891*10^30; % Masa del sol
G=6.67392*10^(-11); % Constante gravitacional universal
afelio=3.00632e9; % Afelio Urano
%condiciones iniciales:
x(1)=3.00632e9; %posicion x
y(1)=0; %posicion y
z(1)=0; %velocidad x
w(1)=6.80*10^3; %velocidad Orbital media o velocidad y
for n=1:10
w(n+1)=w(n)+(0.5*(-G*M*x(n))/(((x(n)^2)+(y(n)^2))^1.5))+((-G*M*(x(n)
+w(n)))/((((x(n)+w(n))^2)+((y(n)+z(n))^2))^1.5));
z(n+1)=z(n)+(0.5*(-G*M*y(n))/(((x(n)^2)+(y(n)^2))^1.5))+((-G*M*(y(n)
+z(n)))/((((x(n)+w(n))^2)+((y(n)+z(n))^2))^1.5));
x(n+1)=x(n)+0.5*(w(n)+w(n+1));
y(n+1)=y(n)+0.5*(z(n)+z(n+1));
dx(n)=x;
dy(n)=y;
end
%grafica
plot(dx(1,1:n),dy(1,1:n));xlabel('X');ylabel('Y');title('Orbita Urano');
hold on; grid on