Ferdinand
Moon· orbits Uranus
Ferdinand — moon of Uranus.
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Key facts
Radius
10.5 km
1% of our Moon's radius
Orbit around Uranus
7.83 Earth years
2,862 Earth days
Science
Physical
- Radius (estimated)
- 10.5 km · 1% of our Moon's radius
- Sized from its brightness assuming a dark (~0.04) surface — never resolved, so the true diameter (~21 km) could be off by a factor of two.
Orbit around Uranus
- Distance from Uranus
- 0.139 AU
- From JPL orbital elements
- Orbital period
- 7.83 years
- From JPL orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 0.3178
- From JPL orbital elements
- Inclination to the J2000 equator
- 147.47 °
- From JPL orbital elements
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00269 S⊕ · 1/371 of the sunlight Earth receives
- Computed from the distance to the Sun (inverse-square; Earth's sunlight = 1), before any atmosphere.
Discovery & history
- By
- D. Milisavljevic, M. Holman, J.J. Kavelaars, T. Grav
Ferdinand was discovered in 2001 by D. Milisavljevic and colleagues. 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 resolved image of this moon has been released: telescopes and passing spacecraft have recorded it only as a faint point of light.