Portia
Uranus XII - 1986U1
Portia was named after a rich heiress in Shakespeare's play
Merchant of Venice . It is the seventh known satellite of
Uranus and was discovered by Voyager 2 .
Portia Statistics
Discovered by Voyager 2
Date of discovery 1986
Mass (kg) ?
Equatorial radius (km) 55
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 8.6234e-03
Mean density (gm/cm^3) ?
Mean distance from Uranus (km) 66,100
Rotational period (days) ?
Orbital period (days) 0.513196
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 9.37
Orbital eccentricity 0.000
Orbital inclination (degrees) 0.09
Visual geometric albedo 0.07
Magnitude (Vo) 21.0
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