Perdita /ˈpɜːrdətə/ is an inner satellite of Uranus. Perdita's discovery was very complicated, as the first photographs of Perdita were taken by the Voyager...

bees Perdita (moon), a minor satellite of the planet Uranus Perdita (The Winter's Tale), the heroine of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale Perdita Boyte...

mean-motion resonance with Perdita, and from this its mass has been determined to be roughly 26 times that of Perdita. The inner moon system is unstable over...

six moons Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, and Rosalind; and the Belinda group, which includes the three moons Cupid, Belinda, and Perdita. All...

during its Uranus flyby in 1986. However, it is brighter than another moon, Perdita, which was discovered from Voyager's photos in 1997. This led scientists...

or moons. At least 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally rounded; of these, all are covered by a crust of ice except for Earth's Moon and...

is separated by only 863 km from the orbit of the larger moon Belinda. Unlike Mab and Perdita—two Uranian satellites also discovered in 2003—it does not...

satellite). Natural satellites are colloquially referred to as moons, a derivation from the Moon of Earth. In the Solar System, there are six planetary satellite...

includes Bianca, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda, and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Other...

effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon) and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth). The acceleration causes...