| Discovery | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovered by | Voyager 2 | ||||||
| Discovered in | 192 | Orbital characteristics | |||||
| Mean radius | 62659 km | ||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.00023 | ||||||
| Orbital period | 0.47365d | ||||||
| Inclination | 0.16° | ||||||
| Is a satellite of | Uranus | ||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||
| Equatorial diameter | ~64 km | ||||||
| Surface area | km2 | ||||||
| Mass | 1.78×1017 kg | ||||||
| Mean density | 1.3 g/cm3 | ||||||
| Surface gravity | 0.011m/s2 | ||||||
| Rotation period | ? | ||||||
| Axial tilt | ?° | ||||||
| Albedo | 0.07 | ||||||
| Surface temp. |
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| Atmospheric pressure | 0 kPa | ||||||
Desdemona is a moon of Uranus. It is named after the wife of Othello in William Shakespeare's play Othello. Other than its size and orbit, virtually nothing is known about it.
wikipedia.org dumped 2003-03-17 with terodump