Bianca

Bianca

Moon· orbits Uranus

Bianca is a moon orbiting Uranus.

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Key facts

Radius
22 km
1% of our Moon's radius
Orbit around Uranus
10.4 hours
0.44 Earth days

Science

Physical

Radius
22 km · 1% of our Moon's radius
JPL Horizons OBJ_DATA (reported mean radius)

Orbit around Uranus

Distance from Uranus
59,170 km
From JPL orbital elements
Orbital period
10.45 hours
From JPL orbital elements
Eccentricity
0.006
From JPL orbital elements
Inclination to Uranus's Laplace plane
2.30 °
From JPL orbital elements · The Laplace plane is the one a moon's orbit precesses about: close in it is the planet's equatorial plane, the plane of the rings, and further out it tilts toward the planet's own orbit.

Radiation & temperature

Insolation
0.00265 S⊕ · 1/378 of the sunlight Earth receives
Computed from the distance to the Sun (inverse-square; Earth's sunlight = 1), before any atmosphere.

Discovery & history

By
Voyager Science Team

Bianca was discovered in 1986 by Voyager Science Team. Uranus's moons are named after characters from the plays of Shakespeare and the poetry of Alexander Pope. Beyond its discovery and naming, little more about it has been individually recorded.

Images

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