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Today In Space History: The Seventh Planet

By TonyF on 13 March 2007 at 6:07PM

March 13th marks the 226th anniversary of the discovery of planet Uranus. The seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus is the first to be discovered in modern times. Astronomer William Herschel first observed it in 1781.

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