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by hashtag-til 589 days ago
People doing important research on Uranus certainly hear a lot of jokes.
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No, it’s always the same joke, in a thousand variations on a theme.
Which drives me mad, given that Uranus should really be pronounced like the greek god Uranus (uran-os, with U pronounced like in Uzbekistan), not "ur anus".
Or it should be called Caelus to be consistent with Roman names
We could always go back to calling it George, like Herschel initially did.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of minor planets
It was a meta-joke, sorry everyone.
I thought they renamed it Urectum?