Setebos
Moon· orbits Uranus
Setebos is a moon orbiting Uranus.
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Key facts
Orbit around Uranus
5.99 Earth years
2,188 Earth days
Science
Orbit around Uranus
- Distance from Uranus
- 0.104 AU
- Orbital period
- 5.99 years
- Eccentricity
- 0.4765
- Inclination
- 137.94 °
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00264 S⊕ · 1/379 of the sunlight Earth receives
Discovery & history
- By
- J.J. Kavelaars, B. Gladman, M. Holman, J.-M. Petit, H. Scholl
Setebos was discovered in 1999 by J.J. Kavelaars 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 official imagery available — this object has never been visited and no officially-licensed depiction exists.