Comments by "H. de Jong" (@h.dejong2531) on "Voyager 2's Discoveries On Neptune and Uranus [4K] | Zenith | Spark" video.

  1. The people who discovered them.
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  2.  @albertchehade9916  No. The person who discovers a planet gets to choose the name for it (usually). William Herschel discovered Uranus. His choice for a name was an exception to the naming rule. He proposed 'Georgium Sidus (George's Star)' after the British king George, which the astronomical community didn't like, because it's inconsistent with the names of the other planets (which are derived from Greek and Roman mythology) and because you shouldn't name a planet "star". A german astronomer proposed the name Uranus, and that stuck.
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  3. They learned from each failure, so it's not surprising the success rate went up rapidly. And the Apollo program wasn't exactly "without a hitch". Apollo 1: fire in the capsule during ground test, 3 astronauts dead. Apollo 12: lightning strike just after liftoff disables most systems in the command module, only quick thinking by Mission Control enables the astronauts to recover the mission - they were minutes away from aborting the mission. Apollo 13: a design flaw causes an explosion in one of the oxygen tanks of the Service Module, getting close to killing 3 astronauts. They used several Rube Goldberg solutions to keep the astronauts alive.
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  4. Incorrect. The pictures show a gaseous atmosphere that's blue. Uranus does not have a solid surface.
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