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(tt´n), in astronomy, largest of the known moons, or natural satellites, of Uranus.
Titania (ti-taa'-nyə or tye-tan'-ee-ə, IPA ) is the largest moon of Uranus. Titania was discovered on January 11, 1787 by William Herschel.
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Titania
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Titania [Ty-TAY-ne-ah] is the largest moon of Uranus. It is marked by a few large impact basins, but is generally covered with small craters and very rough rocks. The above image shows a 1,600 kilometer (1,000 mile) long trench.
Titania
Fourth satellite of Uranus, discovered by Herschel in 1787, R 850 km; P = 8d17h.
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Titania has many canyons,
References
Arnett, W. "The Nine Planets: Titania." .
Titania was marked by huge faults and deep canyons. Ariel had the brightest and youngest surface of Uranian moons, with many deep valleys and broad ice flows. Dark-surfaced Umbriel and Oberon looked older.
Titania is Uranus' largest moon. Small impact craters and long, tall cracks scar its icy crust. The cracks probably formed as the gravity of Uranus and its other moons pulled and twisted Titania.
Titania is the largest moon at 1,580 km (980 miles) across, but Oberon is nearly as big.
Titania and Oberon are each about 1600 kilometers in diameter and are both heavily cratered. Both show signs of geological activity.
Titania is the Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream.
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Titania -- In William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the queen of the fairies.
topography -- The shape and form of the surface of a planet.
Triton -- In Greek mythology, merman, half-man, half-fish. Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite.
Ariel and Titania appear quite similar though Titania is 35% larger. All of Uranus' large moons are a mixture of about 40-50% water ice with the rest rock, a somewhat larger fraction of rock than Saturn's large moons such as Rhea.
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.
Titania (NASA Thesaurus / NASA SP-7, 1965) A satellite of Uranus orbiting at a mean distance of 438,000 kilometers.
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.
One of the most-discussed methods for distinguishing between formation models is the abundance of argon and its isotopes in the Titanian atmosphere.
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.
In contrast, Titania and Ariel have far fewer craters in the large size range (50- to 100-kilometre diameter) but have comparable numbers in the smaller size ranges.
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.
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.
Among these was his spotting of two of Uranus's moons, Titania and Oberon, in 1787.
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.
URANUS U_RINGS PUCK MIRANDA ARIEL UMBRIEL TITANIA OBERON or URANUS U_RINGS PUCK MIRANDA ARIEL UMBRIEL TITANIA OBERON or URANUS U_RINGS PUCK MIRANDA ARIEL UMBRIEL TITANIA OBERON
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Mars (in Mars (planet): Early telescopic observations)
Oberon (in Oberon (astronomy))
Titania (in Titania (astronomy))
Uranus (in Uranus (planet): Observations from Earth)
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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 ...
The biggest moon of Uranus. It is about half the size of our moon. Titania is covered by many small craters, a few huge impact basins ice cliffs, and fault lines.
Wm. Herschel, 1787
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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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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, ...
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DISCOVERY OF URANUS
Uranus was discovered by the British astronomer on March 13, 1781. Herschel also discovered two of the moons of Uranus (Titania and Oberon) and some of the moons of Saturn.
URANUS-EARTH COMPARISON ...
This gaseous, giant outer planet has a visible ring system and over 20 moons, the largest of which is Titania. Uranus is tipped on its side, with a rotation axis in nearly the same plane as its orbit.
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.
(b) The largest and brightest (albedo = 0.21) satellite of Saturn, discovered by Huyghens in 1655. R 2900 km (about the size of Mercury), period (orbital and spin) 15d22h41m. H2 and CH4 have been discovered in its atmosphere. [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: Titan, Uranus, Solar, Earth, Saturn
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