In his role he is also in charge of creating the agenda for the biannual Fiduciary Investors Symposium, and annual the Fixed Income Forum, the Absolute Returns Conference. Journalist. Dan Purves worked as the head of news, sport and journalistic programming operations at Demon Media winning two national awards.
Uranus (mythology) Uranus (/ËjÊÉrÉnÉs/ or /jÊËreÉªnÉs/; Ancient Greek Î¿á½ÏÎ±Î½ÏÏ, Ouranos [oËranÃ³s] meaning sky or heaven) was the primal Greek god personifying the sky. His name in Roman mythology was Caelus. In Ancient Greek literature, Uranus or Father Sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father.
However, German astronomer Johann Bode proposed the name âUranusâ for the celestial body in order to conform to the classical mythology-derived names of other known planets. Uranus, the ancient Greek deity of the heavens, was a predecessor of the Olympian gods. By the mid-19th century, it was also the generally accepted name of the seventh planet from the sun. The planet Uranus is a gas giant like Jupiter and Saturn and is made up of hydrogen, helium, and methane. The third largest planet, Uranus orbits the sun once every 84 earth years and is the only planet to spin perpendicular to its solar orbital plane.