Fellow astronomer Johanne Bode suggested the name Uranus (a Greek god) would be a better fit, though it took another 50 years for the name to catch on. Almost every major planet in the solar ...

A year later, German astronomer Johann Bode suggested the winning name, Uranus, the Latin word for the Greek god Ouranos. He made quite a persuasive argument with two main points. First ...

Uranus wasn't ready for its closeup 38 years ... to talk about on the radio than one named after that particular Greek god. As it passed by the 7th planet, the spacecraft also zipped by 10 ...

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Images of which were captured in rich ... German astronomer Johann Bode suggested the winning name: Uranus, the Latin word for the Greek god of the sky: Ouranos (Ew-rah-nose).