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Ophelia ![]()
Discovered through the analysis of Voyager 2 photographs in 1986, Ophelia is the second innermost known satellite of Uranus and is a shepherd satellite (for the Epsilon ring) much like Cordelia (the innermost moon). Ophelia was named after daughter of Polonius in Shakespeare's tragic play Hamlet.
| PHYSICAL DATA FOR OPHELIA | |
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| Mass (kg) | ? |
| Mass (Earth = 1) | ? |
| Radius (km) | 16 |
| Radius (Earth = 1) | 2.5086e - 03 |
| Mean Density (g/cm3) | ? |
| Mean Distance from Uranus (km) | 53,760 |
| Magnitude (V0) | 23.8 |
| ORBITAL DATA FOR OPHELIA | |
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| Rotational period (days) | ? |
| Orbital period (days) | 0.376409 |
| Mean orbital velocity (km/s) | 10.39 |
| Orbital eccentricity | 0.001 |
| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 0.09 |
| Escape (km/s) | ? |
| Albedo | 0.07 |
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