And mentioning it's surrounded by rings

Crazy thing: straight news. Sauce; http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/11/hubble-just-spotted-something-massive-coming-out-of-uranus-6567896/

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I saw that meme from several months ago when I searched on the Uranus tab to see if anyone had used this first. Since I'd read the article I linked earlier, I knew this meme to be true. While it gets a lot if teasing for Uranus, it would have gotten a Star Wars send up by being compared to Darth Sidious.

That was one I created a while back. Funny enough, it shows up very close to the top of Google Images results for "Uranus Meme."

I can only imagine how many views it would have gotten had people commented. It's definitely the most viewed Uranus on imgflip. I'm glad you put the link here.

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Good one.

Seriously. I'm not an astronomer, but a quick skim through Google does point to scientist using both terms for the planet. One article, http://www.space.com/18706-uranus-composition.html, uses both terms, first saying it's an ice giant, then comparing it to the "other," gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune. It is possible, as Uranus is so far from the sun that the gases that comprise the body have frozen. While it does have a mineral content higher than that of the earth, it is only a minor composition of the planet.

The planet has approx. 14.5 Earth masses, 13.5 of which are made of rock and various ices. The hydrogen and helium gases, while having an Earth's worth of mass, don't make it a gas giant.

You have the radio backwards. I'd the 14.5 times the mass of earth, the amount mineral, or rock, is between 1 to 1.5 that if Earth. We're not sure how much of the ice is actual water as oxygen is required for that compound. So 90% of the planet (+/- 2%) is frozen gasses.

Quoting from Fraser Cain at Universe.org, "...Astronomers think that between 9.3 and 13.5 Earth Masses is made up of these ices." You mention frozen gases, AKA ices. Therefore, we conclude that the gas giant similarity comes from an atmosphere containing mostly hydrogen and helium, with approximately one Earth mass. Another Earth mass of rock exists. We then find numerous Earth masses of methane, water, and ammonia ices. The majority of a giant outer planet is ice, therefore leading to the natural classification of an ice giant.