Md. Taqi Yasir
235 years back, William Herschel discovered the planet of ice in the solar system on 13th March, 1781. This was marked as one of the best discoveries and a newly added dimension in the astronomical paradigm shift.
The very myth of naming Uranus came from the sideline of a unique and a chronological pedigree. The planet was firstly supposed to be named as the homonym of butthole, but later on it had a new case shift of naming.
Uranus was named after a Greek mythological god of the sky who was the father of Chronus. Chronus is Saturn in Roman mythology and so Uranus is the Father of Saturn as per the mythologies describe.
It took almost 70 years for Uranus to be accepted globally as the 7th planet of the solar system. William Herschel himself wanted to keep the name as George’s Star or Georgium Sidus, in honor of King George III.
Jérôme Lalande, a French astronomer suggested the planet to be named after the guy who discovered the planet. That is the name was supposed to be Herschel planet. Johann Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician suggested the name to be Hypercronius, which means the planet above Saturn. Another word that had been proposed was Cybele which means Saturn’s wife. Erik Prosperin, a Swedish Astronomer proposed the name suggested the name to be Neptune which actually was named after while as the eighth planet in the year of 1864.