Portia
Uranus XII - 1986U1
Portia was named after a rich heiress in Shakespeare's play
Merchant of Venice. It is the seventh known satellite of
Uranus and was discovered by Voyager 2.
| Portia 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) | 55 |
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| Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 8.6234e-03 |
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| Mean density (gm/cm^3) | ? |
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| Mean distance from Uranus (km) | 66,100 |
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| Rotational period (days) | ? |
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| Orbital period (days) | 0.513196 |
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| Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | 9.37 |
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| Orbital eccentricity | 0.000 |
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| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 0.09 |
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| Visual geometric albedo | 0.07 |
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| Magnitude (Vo) | 21.0 |
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