Puck (GIF, 4K)

Uranus XV - 1985U1

Puck was named after a mischievous fairy in Shakespeare's play Midsummer Night's Dream. It is the tenth known satellite of Uranus and was discovered by Voyager 2.

Puck Statistics

Discovered by ............................... Stephen Synnott
Date of discovery ...................................... 1985

Mass (kg) ................................................. ?
Equatorial radius (km) ................................... 77
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) .................... 1.2073e-02
Mean density (gm/cm^3) .................................... ?

Mean distance from Uranus (km) ....................... 86,010
Rotational period (days) .................................. ?
Orbital period (days) .............................. 0.761832
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) ......................... 8.22

Orbital eccentricity .................................. 0.000
Orbital inclination .................................... 0.31°

Visual geometric albedo ................................ 0.07
Magnitude (Vo) ......................................... 20.2

Uranus Belinda Miranda

Author: Calvin J. Hamilton.