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Cressida was named after the daughter of Calchas in Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida. It is the forth satellite out from Uranus and was discovered by Voyager 2.
| Cressida Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Voyager 2 |
| Date of discovery | 1986 |
| Mass (kg) | ? |
| Equatorial radius (km) | 33 |
| Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 5.1740e-03 |
| Mean density (gm/cm^3) | ? |
| Mean distance from Uranus (km) | 61,770 |
| Rotational period (days) | ? |
| Orbital period (days) | 0.463570 |
| Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | 9.70 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.000 |
| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 0.04 |
| Visual geometric albedo | 0.07 |
| Magnitude (Vo) | 22.2 |
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