Puck (GIF, 4K)

Uranus XV - 1985U1

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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.

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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

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Author: Calvin J. Hamilton.