Cupid
Moon· orbits Uranus
Cupid is a moon orbiting Uranus.
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Key facts
Orbit around Uranus
14.7 hours
0.61 Earth days
Science
Orbit around Uranus
- Distance from Uranus
- 267,761 km
- Orbital period
- 14.73 hours
- Eccentricity
- 0.007598
- Inclination
- 72.84 °
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00264 S⊕ · 1/378 of the sunlight Earth receives
Discovery & history
- By
- M.R. Showalter, J.J. Lissauer
Cupid was discovered in 2003 by M.R. Showalter and J.J. Lissauer. 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
No official imagery available — this object has never been visited and no officially-licensed depiction exists.