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  2. Moons of Uranus - Wikipedia

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    Uranus, the seventh planet of the Solar System, has 28 confirmed moons. The 27 with names are named after characters that appear in, or are mentioned in, William Shakespeare's plays and Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock. [1] Uranus's moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons, and ten irregular moons.

  3. Uranus - Wikipedia

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    Uranus's 28 natural satellites include 18 known regular moons, of which 13 are small inner moons. Further out are the larger five major moons of the planet: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. Orbiting at a much greater distance from Uranus are the ten known irregular moons.

  4. List of natural satellites - Wikipedia

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    Uranus has 28 known moons, five of which are massive enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium. There are 13 moons that orbit within Uranus's ring system , and another ten outer irregular moons.

  5. List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System

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    9.28 × 10 11 0.857 1.083 × ... because they appear to follow the normal situation for TNOs rather than the moons of Saturn and Uranus, and become solid at a larger ...

  6. You've been pronouncing 'Uranus' wrong your entire life. How ...

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    Alone but certainly unique, Uranus rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle and is surrounded by 13 icy rings. Images of which were captured in rich detail last year by the James Webb Space Telescope .

  7. List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia

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    For the small outer irregular moons of Uranus, such as Sycorax, which were not discovered by the Voyager 2 flyby, even different NASA web pages, such as the National Space Science Data Center [6] and JPL Solar System Dynamics, [5] give somewhat contradictory size and albedo estimates depending on which research paper is being cited.

  8. Scientists may have discovered two Uranus moons - AOL

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    Three-decade old data may have just led scientists to make a new discovery about Uranus.

  9. Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may ...

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    Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, according to a new study. Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its ...