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U-rah-nus is the closet to the correct one, yes.

Uranus is the Latin name for the ancient Greek God Ouranos. He was basically a personification of the sky/heavens, and he married Gaia (the Earth - Terra in Latin), who gave birth to the 12 Titans.

The youngest of the 12 was Kronos, a personification of Time (and equivalent to the Latin Saturn), who went on to kill his father by castration, on the advice of his mother.

He then married his sister Rhea and proceeded to eat his children as they were born (Poseiden, Hades, Hera, etc) until Zeus was born and his mother hid him in a cave on Crete and fed Kronos a stone instead.

Zeus (Jupiter) then defeats Kronos and frees all his siblings, marries his sister, and starts having babies with her, as is tradition.

EDIT: I meant to add, the Latin pronunciation for Uranus IS more or less "Yer Anus". The Greek Ouranos is more or less "Oora Nose". Also Ouranos and Urine both share the same PIE root word which means "showering down" (you know, like rain from the sky - he's the sky god).

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I wish I were NASA, so I could probe Uranus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_(mythology)

According to this, the correct pronunciation is "Yer Anus", for what it's worth.

Do you not speak American? It was always your-anus in the Land of the Free until faggotry took over.

E: While I was joking about the American part, I am not joking about how it was pronounced, at least during the 70s and 80s.

I know you are fucking around, but your hyphenation as "Ur-an-us" can still be pronounced both ways depending upon the stressing of the "A."

Was it before or after Pluto was no longer a planet?

I know a greek one who calls it "Ooh-ron-oos". Fuckin weirdo foreigner.