Cordelia
Uranus VI - 1986U7
Cordelia was named after the daughter of King Lear in Shakespeare's play King Lear. Cordelia is one of the smaller moons in the Solar System and is the innermost known moon of Uranus. It has a diameter of 15 kilometers (9 miles) and is 49,750 kilometers (30,910 miles) from the center of Uranus. Cordelia acts as the inner shepherd satellite for Uranus' epsilon ring.
Cordelia Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Voyager 2 |
| Date of discovery | 1986 |
| Mass (kg) | ? |
| Equatorial radius (km) | 13 |
| Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 2.0383e-03 |
| Mean density (gm/cm^3) | ? |
| Mean distance from Uranus (km) | 49,750 |
| Rotational period (days) | ? |
| Orbital period (days) | 0.335033 |
| Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | 10.80 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 0.14 |
| Visual geometric albedo | 0.07 |
| Magnitude (Vo) | 24.1 |
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