Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus: Facts and History

Описание: Saturn and Its Discovery
Before diving into the various facts about Uranus and how it quite possibly became what it is today. We need to first understand how it got discovered, because it's a tale that is rather familiar when it comes to the outer planets.
You see, Uranus had been observed on many occasions before its recognition as a planet, but it was generally mistaken for a star. Many other planets and dwarf planet had similar misidentifications because of their distance from the sun and the Earth and their slow orbits (more on that later).

The Finding Of Saturn
Believe it or not, Saturn has a long and multi-layered history of being found, and its first appearances are further back in time than you would think.
Saturn has been known about since prehistoric times and in early recorded history it was a major character in various mythologies. Babylonian astronomers systematically observed and recorded the movements of Saturn. It was also known about to both the Green and Roman cultures who put them into their pantheons. In ancient Roman mythology, the planet Phainon (Saturn) was sacred to their agricultural god, from which the planet takes its modern name. The Romans considered the god Saturnus the equivalent of the Greek god Cronus.

Finnish-Swedish astronomer Anders Johan Lexell, working in Russia, was the first to compute the orbit of the new object. Its nearly circular orbit led him to a conclusion that it was a planet rather than a comet. Berlin astronomer Johann Elert Bode described Herschel's discovery as "a moving star that can be deemed a hitherto unknown planet-like object circulating beyond the orbit of Saturn". Bode concluded that its near-circular orbit was more like a planet's than a comet's.

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Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:03 Jupiter Facts and history
13:56 Saturn Facts and history
27:56 Uranus Facts and history


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