Belinda and Umbriel, two of Uranus's larger moons, take their names from a poem by Alexander Pope.
The existence of Neptune was deduced from minute deviations between the predicted and observed orbits of Uranus.
Before that it was in an orbit that went from the orbit of Jupiter out past the planet Uranus.
This year, for example, the names Caliban and Sycorax were proposed for the 16th and 17th moons of Uranus.
While observations of the weather on Uranus and Neptune are still in their infancy, Jupiter's clouds are more familiar.
Eventually, assuming the probes continued to function, they would pass and study Uranus and Neptune, and then depart the solar system.
The probes' initial goal was to survey the outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - a task they completed in 1989.
Between them, the two techniques should thus provide a more complete census of the population of Uranus-like and larger planets around other stars.
They are named super-Earths because they are more massive than the Earth but less massive than Uranus and Neptune (which are about 15 Earth masses).
Neptune was also discovered in 1846 after two mathematicians analysed decades of observations of the anomalous motion of Uranus to reveal the gravitational influence of an unseen planet.
Several panel members have favored dividing planets into categories: terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars), giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) and a third class that would include Pluto.
This is easily enough to detect Jupiter-like planets around distant stars, and it should also be enough to detect smaller, Uranus-like planets around stars within the sun's stellar neighbourhood.
Yet despite its being nearer the sun, the weather on Uranus seems less violent than that on Neptune, with the clouds being swept around at a mere 500 kph.
Uranus, the next planet in from Neptune, is almost as mysterious, but for a different reason: its almost featureless green surface provides few clues to the goings-on in its atmosphere.
Over the past two years, whenever I'd enquired about a Uranus picture, I was always told that it would be a pretty "boring blob of light", with little to commend it.
BBC: Uranus image celebrates Herschel - the man and the machine
It's possible that the smaller giant planets - Uranus and Neptune, these guys are usually called ice giants rather than gas giants - they may have had some violence in their history.
The far-infrared telescope is named after William Herschel, the 18th Century astronomer who - as we all know - discovered Uranus from his back garden in Bath in the west of England.
BBC: Uranus image celebrates Herschel - the man and the machine
I've been on at the European Space Agency (Esa) to give us a picture of the Planet Uranus for quite a while, and I'm pleased to say the image has finally been delivered.
BBC: Uranus image celebrates Herschel - the man and the machine
To cap that, having looked at Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 2's controllers decided to extend the mission by taking pictures of Uranus and Neptune as the craft continued on its journey out of the solar system.
In a lot of ways, the weather of the four giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) should be easier to understand than that of the earth, because there are no oceans and continents to complicate matters.
John Herschel, son of the discoverer of Uranus and a founder of the Royal Astronomical Society, argued that it would have been a waste of a Universe if God had only created one place where there were people He loved.
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