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Uranus.
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MARCEL AYME (1902-1967) may not have been one of the greatest French writers of this century, but he certainly was one of the most diverse, most prolific, and most charming. He wrote in every genre from fiction to poetry, essay to children's fantasy, drama to jounalism. Some of his novels, stories, and plays are very near top-grade, and there was always, even in his harshest works, a lightness of touch, a floating irony that was Ayme's hallmark, and very probably one reason for his not being more widely appreciated. The other was that, though never an actual Nazi or Petainist,…
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Far out! Uranus is sure an odd ball
...astronomer, Sir William Herschel, identified Uranus as a planet in 1781. He first thought...Little-known Pluto possibly excepted, Uranus is far and away the strangest member of...and the seventh farthest from the sun. Uranus is a huge ball about 31,800 miles in... |
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Focus on Uranus.(SCOPE ON SKIES)
...named after the Greek god Ouranos, or Uranus as it is now spelled. William Herschel...include discovering additional moons around Uranus and Saturn, determining the proper motion...led him to the discovery of the planet Uranus. During the spring of 1781, as Herschel... |
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NASA: Huge spring storms rouse Uranus from winter hibernation.
...1999-NASA: Huge spring storms rouse Uranus from winter hibernation (C)1994-99...Earth were anything like it will be on Uranus, we would be experiencing waves of massive...one of the blander-looking planets, Uranus is now revealed as a dynamic world with... |
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RELEASE: 99-47 HUGE SPRING STORMS ROUSE URANUS FROM WINTER HIBERNATION
...Earth were anything like it will be on Uranus, we would be experiencing waves of massive...one of the blander-looking planets, Uranus is now revealed as a dynamic world with...well up from deep in the atmosphere of Uranus. The movie, created by Hubble researcher... |
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Waiting for the word from Uranus. (Voyager 2 data)
Waiting for the Word from Uranus Michael Kaiser has been waiting for...come on. The topic: a message from Uranus. Kaiser is one of many scientists working...2 spacecraft, which will flash past Uranus next Jan. 24. More specifically... |
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NASA's Hubble Discovers New Rings & Moons Around Uranus.
...photographed a new pair of rings around Uranus and two new, small moons orbiting the...from the planet, they are being called Uranus' "second ring system." One of the...Hubble data also reveals the orbits of Uranus' family of inner moons have changed significantly... |
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Scientists baffled by Uranus data
...solar system. The rotation of the planet Uranus has been measured at 16 hours 48 minutes...equator have been found to be circling Uranus in roughly half that time - about eight...winds The dense atmosphere that shrouds Uranus's un observable surface is being swept... |
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Oh, to be on Uranus, now that spring is there!
...t know it's springtime on the planet Uranus. Not many people do. How do I? Well...season has been witnessed, since a year on Uranus is roughly equivalent to 84 of our Earth...is over its equator. But oh, to be on Uranus, now that spring is there! The vernal... |
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NEW IMAGES YIELD CLUES TO SEASONS OF URANUS
...opportunity to observe the change of seasons on Uranus, a planet some 19 times farther from...the atmospheres of distant planets like Uranus, and they're gaining intriguing insight...discovered with the aid of a telescope, Uranus is characterized by a ring system and... |
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Trivia: Uranus (the planet).
Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in March 1781. See if you can get through this probe of Uranus without giggling. 1. Not surprisingly, Uranus has some gas. Which gas is the most prominent in its atmosphere... |
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