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To date 27 moons have been discovered around Uranus, those named after characters from Shakespeare include Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Ariel (The Tempest), Miranda (The Tempest) and Puck (A Midsummer Night’s Dream).
Uranus, the seventh planet of the Solar System, has 28 confirmed moons. Most of them are named after characters that appear in, or are mentioned in, the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. [1] Uranus's moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons, and ten irregular moons.
SHEIR: There are 27 known moons of Uranus. All but two are named after characters from Shakespeare. There’s Ophelia, there’s Sycorax and Desdemona, there’s one called Perdita, and on and on. Twenty-five Shakespeare names plus two from a poem by Alexander Pope.
And the moons of the planet Uranus — there are, impressively, 27 altogether — have literary ties — 25 of them relate to characters in Shakespeare’s plays. For centuries, whoever discovered a celestial body usually had dibs on the naming rights.
Scientists have found a 28th moon around Uranus. In keeping with tradition, they plan to name it after a Shakespearean character. Scholar Michael Dobson weighs in on the suggested name,...
Uranus has 28 known moons, including five major moons: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. The moons are sometimes called the "literary moons" because they are named for Shakespearean characters, along with a couple of the moons being named for characters from the works of Alexander Pope. The most recently discovered moon was first ...
Like the other Uranian moons, S/2023 U1 will eventually be named after a character from the plays of William Shakespeare, joining the likes of previously discovered moons such as...
While most satellites orbiting other planets take their names from ancient mythologies, Uranus' moons are unique in being named for Shakespearean characters, along with a couple of the moons being named for characters from the works of Alexander Pope.
Uranian moon names began with Herschel. He called the first discovered moons Titania and Oberon, from William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” It is the one planet with moons...
Uranus has 27 moons. They are all named after characters from William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope's works. Uranus has 5 large moons. These are so big that if they were orbiting the Sun and not Uranus they would be called dwarf planets. These large moons are called Titania, Oberon, Ariel, Umbriel, and Miranda.