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Titania

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Uranus
The path of Titania round Uranus, seen from above and drawn to scale, with the white dot at its nearest point. Orbit from NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics, planetary satellites.
Kind
Moon of Uranus
Distance
436,298 km from Uranus on average
Once round
8.706 days
Path
very nearly a circle (eccentricity 0.002), tilted 0°
Size
1,578 km across, 45.4 per cent of our Moon’s width
Density
1.65 times water
Found
1787, by W. Herschel

UranusOn the atlasIn 3D

The edge of UranusTitaniaOur Moon
Titania, our Moon and Uranus, drawn to one scale from their measured sizes, as plain discs.

Still being written

  1. What it looks like up close
  2. What it is made of
  3. How it was found
  4. Spacecraft that have seen it
  5. What is still unknown

Sources: NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics, planetary satellites.