Titania
Moon of Uranus
Facts
- Mean diameter
- 1578 km
- Mean distance from the planet
- 436,300 km
- Orbital period
- 8.71 days
- Discovery
- William Herschel, 11 January 1787
Titania is the largest moon of Uranus. It is crossed by a system of fault valleys up to about 1600 km long. It is named after the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Sources
- NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics, Planetary Satellite Physical Parameters (radii from Archinal et al. 2018, Celest. Mech. 130, 22; Charon from Nimmo et al. 2017, Icarus 287, 12)
- NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics, Planetary Satellite Mean Elements
- NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics, Planetary Satellite Discovery Circumstances
- NASA Science, Titania