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Desdemona
Desdemona

Uranus X - 1986U6


Desdemona is named after the wife of Othello in Shakespeare's play Othello. It is the fifth known satellite of Uranus and was discovered by Voyager 2.

Desdemona Statistics
 Discovered byVoyager 2 
 Date of discovery1986 
 Mass (kg)
 Equatorial radius (km)29 
 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1)4.5469e-03 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3)
 Mean distance from Uranus (km)62,660 
 Rotational period (days)
 Orbital period (days)0.473651 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec)9.63 
 Orbital eccentricity0.000 
 Orbital inclination (degrees)0.16 
 Visual geometric albedo0.07 
 Magnitude (Vo)22.5 

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