Margaret
Moon· orbits Uranus
Margaret — moon of Uranus.
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Key facts
Orbit around Uranus
4.51 Earth years
1,646 Earth days
Science
Orbit around Uranus
- Distance from Uranus
- 0.13 AU
- Orbital period
- 4.51 years
- Eccentricity
- 0.8661
- Inclination
- 72.54 °
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00266 S⊕ · 1/376 of the sunlight Earth receives
Discovery & history
- By
- S.S. Sheppard, D.C. Jewitt
Margaret was discovered in 2003 by S.S. Sheppard and D.C. Jewitt. 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.