Ophelia
Uranus VII - 1986U8
Ophelia was named after the daughter of Polonius in Shakespeare's
play Hamlet. Ophelia is one of
the smaller moons in the Solar System and is the second innermost
known moon of Uranus. It has a diameter of 16 kilometers and
is 53,760 kilometers from the center of Uranus.
Ophelia acts as the outer
shepherd satellite for Uranus'
epsilon ring.
| Ophelia Statistics |
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| Discovered by | Voyager 2 |
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| Date of discovery | 1986 |
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| Mass (kg) | ? |
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| Equatorial radius (km) | 16 |
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| Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 2.5086e-03 |
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| Mean density (gm/cm^3) | ? |
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| Mean distance from Uranus (km) | 53,760 |
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| Rotational period (days) | ? |
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| Orbital period (days) | 0.376409 |
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| Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | 10.39 |
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| Orbital eccentricity | 0.001 |
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| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 0.09 |
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| Visual geometric albedo | 0.07 |
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| Magnitude (Vo) | 23.8 |
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