There is no good way to pronounce it that will not set off a group of 8th graders.

Fortunately, the Uranus chapter is short compared to some of the other planets.

I propose we change the name to something else. How about the name Aphrodite, who was born form the sea and has connections with Uranus. (Neptune and Uranus both are thought to have oceans of water 10,000 miles deep. Neptune is rightfully named.)

Here is some info on the Roman God, Uranus, according to http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/primeval.html#Uranus

The sky and the god of the sky. Uranus was the son of Gaea and possibly of Aether. Uranus married his mother and became the first supreme ruler of the world.

(According to the Orphic myth, Gaea and Uranus were not mother and son. Rather they were sister and brother. They were the children of Protogonus (Phanes) and Nyx.)

Uranus was the father by his mother Gaea, of the Hundred-handed, the Cyclopes, and the Titans. When Gaea bore the Hundred-handed (Hecatoncheires) and Cyclopes, their ugliness caused him to imprison his children within the body of the earth (Gaea). Uranus ruled the universe, until Gaea roused her children to rebel against his rule. The youngest of the Titans, Cronus, castrated his father with a sickle and flung his genitals into the sea. From the foam that formed about the sea, Aphrodite was born.

The Giants, Erinyes, and Meliae were born from his blood that fell on earth (Gaea).

See Creation, Theogony of Hesiod.

According to Diodorus Siculus, Uranus was a mortal king who was deified at his death. Uranus was married to Titaea (Gaea) and he was the father of 45 sons, of which 15 of them were known as the Titans. Uranus was the first ruler of the human. His eldest daughter, Basileia (Theia), ruled after him, with her husband Hyperion