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3. Johann Elert Bode is responsible for making the 7th planet the butt of jokes
Wed Sep 14, 2022, 11:50 PM
Sep 2022

"Ultimately, German astronomer Johann Elert Bode (whose observations helped to establish the new object as a planet) named Uranus after an ancient Greek god of the sky. Bode argued that as Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named for the father of Saturn. (Uranus is also the only planet to be named after a Greek god rather than a Roman one.) Bode's colleague, Martin Klaproth, supported his choice and named his newly discovered element "uranium.""

https://www.space.com/18704-who-discovered-uranus.html

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