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On the other side of Uranus's orbit, the orientation of the poles towards the Sun is reversed. Each pole gets around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness. [74] Near the time of the equinoxes, the Sun faces the equator of Uranus, giving a period of day–night cycles similar to those seen on most of the other planets.
its orbit’s semi-major axis a in Gm (horizontal axis) orbit’s inclination i in degrees (vertical axis). the size of the circle illustrates the satellites's size relative to others: The eccentricity of the orbit is shown indirectly by a segment extending from the left (pericenter) to the apocentre to the right.
The moons of the trans-Neptunian objects (other than Charon) have not been included, because they appear to follow the normal situation for TNOs rather than the moons of Saturn and Uranus, and become solid at a larger size (900–1000 km diameter, rather than 400 km as for the moons of Saturn and Uranus).
Uranus – seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System . Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune , and both have different bulk chemical composition from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn .
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its orbit's semi-major axis a (horizontal axis: in Gm and as a fraction of the Hill sphere's radius) orbit’s inclination i in degrees; The size of the circle illustrates the satellite's size relative to others: The eccentricity of the orbit is shown indirectly by a segment extending from the left (pericenter) to the apocentre to the right.
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