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Uranus' Moons and Rings
Uranus has 27 fascinating moons and a complicated ring system. The ring is a
completely different form of ring than the one around Saturn or Jupiter. At
Uranus there is a very obvious partial ring, or "ring arc".
Many moons are icy moons with fascinating surface
features. These icy moons have no atmosphere nor magnetosphere. The interiors
of these moons are not active, and there is not much possibility for life.
The moons are, in order; Cordelia,Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet,
Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, and Puck. These moons are part of a group called the
"SmalI Moons" moons of Uranus are; Miranda,Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Caliban, and Sycorax. In 1999, four more
Uranian moons were found. They include Prospero, Setebos, Stephano.
uranus moons
Uranus, the seventh planet of the Solar System, has 27 known moons, all of which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.[2] William Herschel discovered the first two moons,Titania and Oberon, in 1787, and the other three ellipsoidal
moons were discovered in 1851 by William Lassell (Ariel and Umbriel) and in 1948 by Gerard Kuiper (Miranda).[2] These
five have planetary mass, and so would be considered
(dwarf) planets if they were in direct orbit about the Sun. The remaining moons
were discovered after 1985, either during the Voyager 2 flyby mission or with the aid of
advanced Earth-based telescopes.
Uranian moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major
moons, and nine irregular moons. The inner moons are small dark bodies that
share common properties and origins with the planet's rings. The five major moons are massive
enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, and four of them show
signs of internally driven processes such as canyon formation and volcanism on
their surfaces.The largest of these five, Titania, is 1,578 km in diameter and the eight-largest moon in the Solar System, and about 20 times less massive that Earth's Moon. Uranus's irregular moons have elliptical and strongly inclined (mostly retrograde) orbits at great distances from the planet.
moons were discovered in 1851 by William Lassell (Ariel and Umbriel) and in 1948 by Gerard Kuiper (Miranda).[2] These
five have planetary mass, and so would be considered
(dwarf) planets if they were in direct orbit about the Sun. The remaining moons
were discovered after 1985, either during the Voyager 2 flyby mission or with the aid of
advanced Earth-based telescopes.
Uranian moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major
moons, and nine irregular moons. The inner moons are small dark bodies that
share common properties and origins with the planet's rings. The five major moons are massive
enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, and four of them show
signs of internally driven processes such as canyon formation and volcanism on
their surfaces.The largest of these five, Titania, is 1,578 km in diameter and the eight-largest moon in the Solar System, and about 20 times less massive that Earth's Moon. Uranus's irregular moons have elliptical and strongly inclined (mostly retrograde) orbits at great distances from the planet.