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Cressida (moon)
Moon of Uranus
Moon of Uranus
| Field | Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | Cressida | ||||
| image | Cressida_01-24-1986_V2.png | ||||
| caption | Cressida imaged by Voyager 2 on January 24, 1986 at a resolution of | ||||
| discoverer | Stephen P. Synnott with Voyager 2 | ||||
| discovered | January 9, 1986 | ||||
| mpc_name | Uranus IX | ||||
| pronounced | |||||
| adjective | Cressidian | ||||
| named_after | Χρησίδα | ||||
| orbit_ref | |||||
| semimajor | 61 766.730 ± 0.046 km | ||||
| eccentricity | 0.00036 ± 0.00011 | ||||
| period | 0.463569601 ± 0.000000013 d | ||||
| inclination | 0.006 ± 0.040° (to Uranus' equator) | ||||
| satellite_of | Uranus | ||||
| dimensions | 92 × 74 km | ||||
| volume | 263800 km ± 38.0% | ||||
| mass | {{indented plainlist | ||||
| * {{val | 1.839 | 0.212 | u | kg | e=17}} |
| * {{val | 2.5 | 0.4 | u | kg | e=17}} |
| density | {{indented plainlist | ||||
| * {{val | 0.70 | 0.44 | 0.21 | u | g/cm3}} |
| * {{val | 0.86 | 0.16 | u | g/cm3}} | |
| rotation | synchronous | ||||
| axial_tilt | zero | ||||
| magnitude | 21.58 (at opposition) | ||||
| albedo | {{indented plainlist | ||||
| * <ref name | "Karkoschka, Hubble 2001" / | ||||
| * <ref name | "Williams 2007 nssdc" / | ||||
| single_temperature | ~65 K |
Cressida is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 9 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 3. It was named after Cressida, the Trojan daughter of Calchas, a tragic heroine who appears in William Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (as well as in tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and others). It is also designated Uranus IX.
Cressida belongs to the Portia group of satellites, which includes Bianca, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda, and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Other than its orbit, size of 92 × 74 km, and geometric albedo of 0.08, little is known about it.
In Voyager 2 imagery Cressida appears as an elongated object, with its major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Cressida's prolate spheroid is 0.8 ± 0.3. Its surface is grey in color.
Cressida orbits close to a 3:2 resonance with the η ring, one of the rings of Uranus. Perturbations of the ring's shape provide a way to measure the mass of Cressida, which in 2024 was found to be . Cressida is one of the few small satellites of Uranus for which the mass has been directly measured.
Cressida may collide with Desdemona within the next 100 million years.
Notes
| Calculated on the basis of other parameters.
References
| access-date = 12 December 2008
| access-date = 29 October 2011
| access-date = 6 August 2006
References
- "Collins English Dictionary".
- Kellog. (1995). "Boccaccio's and Chaucer's Cressida".
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