Uranus explained: the sideways planet

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe claim under review: Uranus spins sideways.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNASA says it rotates at nearly ninety degrees to its orbit, with a tilt of ninety-seven point seven seven degrees, so it rolls around the Sun like a ball.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI love that for her. She took a collision with an Earth-sized object, maybe, and made it a lifestyle.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNASA says maybe. It may be the result of that collision. It is not confirmed.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFine, a hypothetical glow-up.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the seasons are extreme: for nearly a quarter of each Uranian year, the Sun sits over a pole, and the other half gets a twenty-one-year dark winter.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwenty-one years.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorJust a long season of reflection. Also, the first name pitched was for a king, and the planet got a Greek sky god instead.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe claim is true, and the planet is thirteen rings, twenty-eight moons and a sideways commute. Rating: Full Bonkers.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd still more emotionally available than you.