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Miranda

Smallest of the large moons of Uranus

Also known as Uranus V · Miranda (moon)

Orbits: Uranus
Mass: 66 zettagram
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Orbital period: 1.4135 days
Semi-major axis: 129,872 km
Discovered by: Gerard Kuiper
Discovered: February 16, 1948

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Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February 1948 at McDonald Observatory in Texas, and named after Miranda from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Like the other large moons of Uranus, Miranda orbits close to its planet's equatorial plane. Because Uranus orbits the Sun on its side, Miranda's orbit is nearly perpendicular to the ecliptic and shares Uranus's extreme seasonal cycle.

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Named after: Miranda
Albedo: 0.32
Apparent magnitude: 15.8 astronomical filter: V band
Different from: Miranda
Eccentricity: 0.0013
Inclination: 4.232 degree
Diameter: 468 km
Surface gravity: 0.079 metre per square second
Temperature: 60 K sourcing circumstances: mean
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1.ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986Sci...233...70H/abstract
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84 K sourcing circumstances: maximum
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1.ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986Sci...233...70H/abstract
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Area: 700,000 km²

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