period. In other words, Titania is a synchronous or tidally locked satellite, with one face always pointing toward the planet. Titania's orbit lies completely...
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Moons of Uranus (redirect from Satellite of Uranus)
Herschel's four spurious satellites were thought to have sidereal periods of 5.89 days (interior to Titania), 10.96 days (between Titania and Oberon), 38.08...
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the next size group of nine mid-sized natural satellites, between 1,000 km and 1,600 km across, Titania, Oberon, Rhea, Iapetus, Charon, Ariel, Umbriel...
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Oberon (moon) (redirect from Satellite Oberon)
day, he discovered Uranus's largest moon, Titania. He later reported the discoveries of four more satellites, although they were subsequently revealed...
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Umbriel (moon) (redirect from Satellite Umbriel)
another Uranian satellite, Ariel, was discovered by William Lassell on October 24, 1851. Although William Herschel, the discoverer of Titania and Oberon,...
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Midsummer Night's Dream, in which he is King of the Fairies and spouse of Titania, Queen of the Fairies. Oberon is a variant spelling of Auberon, earlier...
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Planetary-mass moon (redirect from Satellite planet)
Uranus (Titania and Oberon) in 1787, he referred to them as "satellites" and "secondary planets". All subsequent reports of natural satellite discoveries...
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Ariel (moon) (redirect from Satellite Ariel)
satellite Umbriel were discovered by William Lassell on 24 October 1851. Although William Herschel, who discovered Uranus's two largest moons Titania...
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Fairies Titania – Queen of the Fairies Puck – Oberon's knavish sprite A Fairy, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed – servants to Titania Indian changeling...
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Nereid (moon) (redirect from Nereid (satellite))
surface. Its spectrum appears to be intermediate between Uranus's moons Titania and Umbriel, which suggests that Nereid's surface is composed of a mixture...
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