I call Uranus a modern planet because being unseen by the naked eye this planet was unknown to the ancients.

Roman name for uranus. Astronomy is very old science - with at. Picture of Uranus Ouranos castrated by his son Cronus. The planet Uranus is so named because it is adjacent to Saturn.

He is a fire and blacksmith god for both. From this we get the name of a modern planet. Named by William Herschel.

Uranus more commonly spelled Ouranos was a Greek god not a Roman one as the deities that gave their names to the other planets. The name Uranus pronounced OOR-ahn-oos before the English mangled it for the amusement of school children is a Romanization of Greek Ouranos OOR-ahn-oas which is conventionally derived from an Indo-European root ṷérs- to rain. Astronomers decided to continue naming the planets after Roman Gods with one exception - Uranus.

Herschel followed the Roman precedent of naming planets after Roman gods. The Romans named the five planets closest to the Sun after their most important gods. Later when telescopes were used other planets were discovered.

According to myth he was the father of Saturn and the grandfather of Jupiter. To the Aztecs and other Nahuatl-speaking peoples Uranus was known as Ilhuicateocitlalli named after the word for sky ilhuicatl and also as Xiuhteuccitlalli. The Romans named the five planets closest to the Sun after their most important gods.

It is the Latin version of the Greek Ouranos the sky god. Pluto is the conventional Roman name and you might use it for a trivia question but really Pluto a god of wealth is the equivalent of a Greek god of wealth called Dis. The persona of the sky Ouranos was the father of the Titans and the giants castrated by his sons as payback for imprisoning their brothers inside Gaia their mother.