Setebos
Moon· orbits Uranus
Setebos is a moon orbiting Uranus.
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Key facts
Radius
23.5 km
1% of our Moon's radius
Orbit around Uranus
5.99 Earth years
2,188 Earth days
Science
Physical
- Radius (estimated)
- 23.5 km · 1% of our Moon's radius
- Sized from its brightness assuming a dark (~0.04) surface — never resolved, so the true diameter (~47 km) could be off by a factor of two.
Orbit around Uranus
- Distance from Uranus
- 0.116 AU
- From JPL orbital elements
- Orbital period
- 5.99 years
- From JPL orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 0.4765
- From JPL orbital elements
- Inclination to the J2000 equator
- 137.94 °
- From JPL orbital elements
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00264 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
- 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 resolved image of this moon has been released: telescopes and passing spacecraft have recorded it only as a faint point of light.