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Miranda ("mi RAN duh") is the eleventh of Uranus's known satellites. Miranda is the innermost of Uranus' large moons. orbit: 129,850 km from Uranus diameter: 472 km mass: 6.3e19 kg ...
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in astronomy, one of the moons, or natural satellites, of Uranus.
Miranda is a small satellite with a diameter of 470 kilometers (290 miles). Its surface is unlike anything in the solar system with features that are jumbled together in a haphazard fashion.
Miranda
Discovery Discovered by
Gerard P. Kuiper Discovered in
February 16, 1948 Orbital characteristics Semi-major axis
129,390 km Mean radius
129,872 km Eccentricity
0.0013 Orbital period
1.413479 d Inclination
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Miranda: A Jigsaw Puzzle World
When the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by the planet Uranus in January 1986, astronomers were treated to their first close-up glimpse of the satellites that orbit the seventh planet.
Miranda Mosaic
The images which make up this mosaic of are among the highest resolution pictures that Voyager obtained of any of the new worlds it encountered during its mission.
Miranda
The innermost satellite of Uranus, discovered by Kuiper in 1948. P = 1d10h, diameter about 500 km.
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Miranda exhibits grooves, scarps, which are apparent remnants of intense geologic activity in the past.
References
Arnett, W. "The Nine Planets: Miranda." .
Miranda (Figure 51) has the appearance of an object that formed from separate pieces that did not totally merge. The basic surface is heavily cratered, but it is interrupted by three lightly cratered regions called coronae.
Miranda is only 500 kilometres in diameter and yet shows incredibly complex jumbled geological structures with faults that appear to be global in size with surface features kilometres deep.
Miranda: Uranus's moon.
Moon: A natural satellite. We call Earth's moon the Moon.
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Miranda is one of the 18 moons of . Its surface is marked by huge grooves, and appears to have shattered many times. It has a bright, V-shaped groove on its surface, the Inverness Corona, which has been nicknamed the chevron.
Miranda warning
In the United States, the Miranda warning is a warning given by police to criminal suspects in police custody, or in a custodial situation, before they are asked guilt-seeking questions relating to the commission of a crime....
Next out is Miranda. It is the smallest of Uranus' moons that is visible from the Earth. It has some of the most interesting surface features in the solar system. First, it has a cliff that is about 19 km (12 miles) high.
Miranda (NASA Thesaurus / NASA SP-7, 1965) A satellite of Uranus orbiting at a mean distance of 124,000 kilometers.
Figure 13.12 Miranda, an asteroid-sized moon of Uranus photographed by Voyager 2, has a strange, fractured surface suggestive of a violent past, but the cause of the grooves and cracks is presently unknown. The resolution here is about 1 km.
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It is not clear why Miranda has been so active geologically. Some theories invoke tidal heating effects earlier in its history, or a collision that tore it apart and allowed it to coelesce again. None are very conclusive.
All major moons comprise approximately equal amounts rock and ice, except Miranda, which is made primarily of ice.[23] The ice component may include ammonia and carbon dioxide.
Miranda, thought before Voyager 2's flyby in 1986 to be the innermost moon, was discovered in 1948 by the American astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper.
The surface of Miranda.
There is always one satellite that is unusual. In the case of Uranus, the unusual satellite is Miranda. While this is not a very large object, only about 470 km wide, it does show some very unusual surface features.
Miranda and Ariel orbit closest to the giant planet; Miranda is the smallest at 470 km (290 miles) in diameter with the innermost orbit, while Ariel is more than twice as big at 1,160 km (720 miles) and nearly the same size as Umbriel.
Thus it came rather close to Miranda, and imaged it with great resolution.
In a second re-use, modifications were performed on parts of the model, as the saucer section and the battle damaged Miranda class nacelle were to be used to represent debris flying off the exploding USS Odyssey in "The Jem'Hadar".
The five main satellites are Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon. The Uranian satellite system is the least massive among the gas giants; indeed, the combined mass of the five major satellites would be less than half that of Triton alone.
discovered Miranda, the fifth satellite of Uranus; discovered Nereid, the second satellite of Neptune; discovered the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest satellite; ...
The surface of Miranda, the smallest of these, shows evidence of extensive geologic activity.
Miranda, thought before 1986 to be the innermost moon, was discovered in 1948 by the American astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper. The moons Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, and 1986U10 were all discovered fairly recently.
The most interesting moon may be Miranda, which has canyons up to 12 miles (20 km) deep. It, too, may have been reshaped by the gravitational pull of Uranus and its moons.
Uranus's Moons ...
Three of five previously-known Uranus moons - Oberon, Titania and Miranda - have Shakespearean names. Umbriel is from Pope's poem. Ariel is a name in both The Rape of the Lock and Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Corona - A type of surface feature of Uranus's satellite Miranda. Coronae consist of parallel ridges and troughs producing a striped appearance. Coronae have sharp boundaries.
Gerard Peter Kuiper (1905-1973) was a Dutch-American astronomer who predicted the existence of the Kuiper belt in 1951. In 1948, Kuiper discovered and named Miranda, a moon of Uranus and Neptune's second moon, Nereid.
Prospero, Stephano, Setebos, Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon.
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ovoid: Geological features on Uranus's moon Miranda thought to be produced by circulation in the solid icy mantle and crust.
Cyclic variables with cycles 100-500 days, and of spectral types K, M, S and C. (Also called long-period variables.) [JJ95]
Miranda ...
Uranus' known moons are (from nearest to furthest from the planet): Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon.
 See also: Uranus, Earth, Planet, Orbit, Sun
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