Why didn’t ancient astronomers know of Uranus’s existence?
The reason that the existence of Uranus was not known to ancient astronomers.
Answer to Problem 1RQ
The ancient astronomers thought Uranus as just a background star as it is too small and too far from the Earth that its movement is difficult to notice.
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Uranus was discovered in
Uranus is too small and too far from the Earth that it is difficult to notice it without a telescope.
Its larger time period shows that it moves very slowly around the Sun; therefore, ancient astronomers thought it as just another background star.
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