Oberon (moon)
Oberon
Click image for description Discovery Discovered by
William Herschel Discovered in
January 11, 1787 Orbital characteristics Semi-major axis
583,520 km Mean radius
583,519 km Eccentricity
0.0014 Orbital period
13.
Oberon
Uranus IV
Oberon ("OH buh ron") is the outermost of Uranus' large satellites and the second largest: orbit: 583,420 km from Uranus diameter: 1523 km mass: 3.03e21 kg ...
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(´brn´´), in astronomy, one of the moons, or natural satellites, of Uranus.
Oberon
Uranus IV
Oberon [O-buh-ron] is a moon of Uranus that is characterized by an old, heavily cratered, and icy surface.
Oberon A satellite of Uranus orbiting at a mean distance of 587,000 kilometers. object glass = objective.
Oberon
Outermost satellite of Uranus, discovered by Herschel in 1787. P = 13.46 days (rotational and orbital); R 500 km.
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Oberon and Umbriel display a dense population of large impact craters, similar to the lunar highlands and many of the oldest terrains in the solar system.
Oberon, the second-largest moon of Uranus. Photo taken by NASA's Voyager mission in 1986.
Oberon the husband to Titania and the King of the Fairies in Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream.
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Oberon -- In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the king of the fairies.
Olympus -- In Greek mythology, the mountain that is home to the gods.
Titania and Oberon are each about 1600 kilometers in diameter and are both heavily cratered. Both show signs of geological activity.
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After Herschel discovered Titania and Oberon on January 11, 1787, he subsequently believed that he observed four other moons; two on January 18 and February 9, 1790, and two more on February 28 and March 26, 1794.
The two largest moons, Oberon and Titania, were discovered by Herschel in 1787. The next two, Umbriel and Ariel, were found in 1851 by the British astronomer William Lassell (1799-1880).
William Herschel discovered and named the two largest of Uranus's five major moons, Titania and Oberon, in 1789. British astronomer William Lassell found the next largest, Ariel and Umbriel, in 1851. Gerard Kuiper found the smallest, Miranda, in 1948.
Literary Moons: Titania, Oberon, Ariel, and Umbriel
For a man who made his reputation by counting and plotting the locations of thousands of stars, astronomer John Herschel had a poetic heart. In 1851, he named the four largest moons of Uranus.
Titania is the largest moon at 1,580 km (980 miles) across, but Oberon is nearly as big.
These were Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. The Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered 10 more, and they were named Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Puck, and Belinda.
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.
Among these was his spotting of two of Uranus's moons, Titania and Oberon, in 1787.
Next out is Titania (left) and Oberon (right). Titania is the biggest moon of Uranus. It looks like a larger version of Ariel. Oberon is only a little smaller than Titania. Oberon has a crater-peppered surface of little interest.
The two biggest ones, Titania and Oberon, were discovered by Herschel in 1787 and are named after character's in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream.
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The following image (Ref) shows the 5 largest satellites of Uranus: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon (here is further discussion about Oberon). There are 10 additional small satellites.
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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.
discovered Uranus and its two brightest moons, Titania and Oberon; discovered Saturn's moons, Mimas and Enceladus; discovered the ice caps of Mars, several asteroids and binary stars; cataloged 2,500 deep sky objects ...
Prospero, Stephano, Setebos, Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon.
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The surface of Miranda, the smallest of these, shows evidence of extensive geologic activity. Umbriel's surface is dark, Titania and Ariel have trenches and faults, and Oberon's impact craters show bright rays similar to those on Jupiter's Callisto ...
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.
(Class 1), whether the emission and absorption are highly anomalous only in the satellite lines (Class 2) (Class 2a, 1720-line emitters; Class 2b, 1612-line emitters), or whether there is only absorption in all four lines (Class 3). [H76]
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by its disk on the 13th of March 1781; two of its satellites, Oberon and Titania, disclosed themselves on the it th of January 1787; while with the giant 48-in.
 See also: Uranus, Titania, Titan, Planet, Solar
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