The Impacts Of Uranus

One theory suggests that uranus was knocked on its side by an object the size of earth. There is one significant flaw with this theory is that all uranus’ moons would be tilted too. The daily galaxy.com says that uranus was hit by two smaller collisions. It also says that moons were orbiting uranus in a different way before the impacts and they changed their orbit when the impacts happened. Technology review.com says something different, it says that Gwenael Boue and Jacques Laskar at the Observatoire de Paris in France put forward another idea. They said that Uranus may have become tilted during the period soon after formation when the planets were moving to the orbits we see now. They point out that the presence of satellites around a planet