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TIL that when William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, he named it Georgium Sidus (“George’s Star”) after King George III, but German astronomer Johann Elert Bode proposed “Uranus” to follow my... (www.nasa.gov)
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Original Title: TIL that when William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, he named it Georgium Sidus (“George’s Star”) after King George III, but German astronomer Johann Elert Bode proposed “Uranus” to follow mythological tradition, which became the accepted name.

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