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Desdemona (moon)

Moon of Uranus

Field	Value
name	Desdemona
image	Desdemonamoon.png
caption	Discovery image of Desdemona
mpc_name	Uranus X
pronounced
adjectives	Desdemonan, Desdemonian, Desdemonean
discoverer	Stephen P. Synnott / Voyager 2
discovered	January 13, 1986
orbit_ref
semimajor	62,658.364 ± 0.047 km
eccentricity	0.00013 ± 0.000070
period	0.473649597 ± 0.000000014 d
inclination	0.11252 ± 0.037° (to Uranus's equator)
satellite_of	Uranus
dimensions	90 × 54 × 54 km
surface_area	~13,000 km2
volume	137400 km ± 37.5%
mass
density	0.5–1.2 g/cm3
0.90 g/cm3 (assumed)
rotation	synchronous
axial_tilt	zero
albedo	0.08 ± 0.01
0.07

Note

There is also a minor planet called 666 Desdemona.

0.90 g/cm3 (assumed) 0.07

Desdemona is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 13 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 6. Desdemona is named after the wife of Othello in William Shakespeare's play Othello. It is also designated Uranus X.

Desdemona belongs to the Portia group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda, and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Other than its orbit, size of 90 × 54 km, and geometric albedo of 0.08, little is known about Desdemona.

In Voyager 2 imagery, Desdemona appears as an elongated object, with its major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Desdemona's prolate spheroid is 0.6 ± 0.3. Its surface is grey in color.

Desdemona may collide with one of its neighboring moons Cressida or Juliet 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 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105040946/http://cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/04100/04164.html |archive-date=5 November 2011

| access-date = 6 August 2006

References

Benjamin Smith. (1903). "The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia".
Harris. (1997). "Shakespearean criticism".
Daileader. (2005). "Racism, misogyny, and the Othello myth".
Genova. (1997). "Power, gender, values".

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