Uranus has two astronomical symbol

Herschel's proposed name was not popular outside of Britain, and alternatives were soon proposed. Astronomer Jérôme Lalande proposed the planet be named Herschel in honour of its discoverer.[34] Swedish astronomer Erik Prosperin proposed the name Neptune which was supported by other astronomers who liked the idea to commemorate the victories of the British Royal Naval fleet in the course of the American Revolutionary War by calling the new planet even Neptune George III or Neptune Great Britain.[27] Bode opted for Uranus, the Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos. Bode argued that just as Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named after the father of Saturn.[31][35][36] In 1789, Bode's Royal Academy colleague Martin Klaproth named his newly discovered element "uranium" in support of Bode's choice.[37] Ultimately, Bode's suggestion became the most widely used, and became universal in 1850 when HM Nautical Almanac Office, the final holdout, switched from using Georgium Sidus to Uranus.[35]

Name

Uranus is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus (Ancient Greek: ???a???), the father of Cronus (Saturn) and grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter), which in Latin became "Uranus".[1] It is the only planet whose name is derived from a figure from Greek mythology rather than Roman mythology. The adjective of Uranus is "Uranian".[38] The pronunciation of the name Uranus preferred among astronomers is /'j??r?n?s/ ewr-?-n?s,[2] with stress on the first syllable as in Latin Uranus, in contrast to the colloquial /j?'re?n?s/ ew-ray-n?s, with stress on the second syllable and a long a, though both are considered acceptable.[e]

Uranus has two astronomical symbols. The first to be proposed, ?,[f] was suggested by Lalande in 1784. In a letter to Herschel, Lalande described it as "un globe surmonté par la première lettre de votre nom" ("a globe surmounted by the first letter of your surname").[34] A later proposal, ?,[g] is a hybrid of the symbols for Mars and the Sun because Uranus was the Sky in Greek mythology, which was thought to be dominated by the combined powers of the Sun and Mars.[40] In the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages, the planet's name is literally translated as the sky king star (???)

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