Do Uranus have moons?

Question

i'd like to know

Answer 1

Yes, Uranus has 27 known moons. The only "major," i.e., spherical ones are Titania, Oberon, Ariel, Umbriel, and Miranda. They are also the five largest moons of the planet, and were discovered roughly in size order, the first four in the 19th century and the fifth in 1948. No more were discovered until Voyager 2 visited the planet in 1986, because the remaining moons are all very small.

Answer 2

Yes several. Uranus is unusual as the planet is tilted at over 90 deg so going round on it's side. It takes 84years to orbit the sun once. The rings round Uranus were discovered in 1977

Answer 3

Uranus has 27 known moons. Unusually, given most astronomical objects are named after gods from Roman and Greek mythology, they are named after characters from Wiiliam Shakespeare's plays and from the works of Alexander Pope.

Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus on March 13th 1781. He discovered the first two (and largest) moons Titania and Oberon (the Fairy King and Queen of A Mid-Summer Night's Dream) exactly 6 years later on March 13th 1787,

Two more moons (Ariel and Umbriel) were discovered by William Lassell in 1851. In 1852, Herschel's son John Herschel gave the four then-known moons their names. In 1948 Gerard Kuiper discovered the moon Miranda. (the naive young girl in The Tempest who exclaims, fanously "Oh Brave New World that hath such people on it!" from which Aldous Huxley derived the title of his novel.)

They are much larger than the remaining 22 moons which were only discovered in the last 20 years The flyby of the Voyager 2 space probe in January 1986 led to the discovery of a further 10 inner moons, and another satellite Perdita was later found after studying old Voyager photographs. Two more small inner moons were discovered by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Until 1997, Uranus was the only giant planet with no known irregular satellites. Since then, nine distant irregular moons have been identified using ground-based telescopes.

In order of ascending orbital period the 27 moons, with dates of discovery are:

Cordelia 0.335034 days 1986
Ophelia 0.376400 days 1986
Bianca 0.434579 days 1986
Cressida 0.463570 days 1986
Desdemona 0.473650 days 1986
Juliet 0.493065 days 1986
Portia 0.513196 days 1986
Rosalind 0.558460 days 1986
Cupid 0.618 days 2003
Belinda 0.623527 days1986
Perdita 0.638 days 1986
Puck 0.761833 days 1985
Mab 0.923 days 2003

Miranda 1.413479 days 1948
Ariel 2.520379 days 1851
Umbriel 4.144177 days 1851
Titania 8.705872 days 1787
Oberon 13.463239 days 1787

Francisco 266.6 days 2001
Caliban 579.7 days 1997
Stephano 677.4 days 1999
Trinculo 759.0 days 2001
Sycorax 1288.3 days 1997
Margaret 1694.8 days 2003
Prospero 1977.3 days 1999
Setebos 2234.8 days 1999
Ferdinand 2823.4 days 2001

Planetary rings

Uranus, like Saturn has a faint planetary ring system, composed of dark particulate matter up to ten meters in diameter. This ring system was discovered in March 1977 by James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Douglas J. Mink using the Kuiper Airborne Observatory.

The discovery was serendipitous; they planned to use the occultation of a star by Uranus to study the planet's atmosphere. However, when their observations were analyzed, they found that the star had disappeared briefly from view five times both before and after it disappeared behind the planet. They concluded that there must be a ring system around the planet; it was directly detected when Voyager 2 passed Uranus in 1986.

As of 2005, 13 rings had been identified. In December 2005, the Hubble Space Telescope photographed a pair of previously unknown rings. The largest is twice the diameter of the planet's previously known rings. The new rings are so far from the planet that they are being called Uranus's "second ring system."

Hubble also spotted two small satellites. One shares its orbit with one of the newly discovered rings. The new data reveals that the orbits of Uranus's family of inner moons have changed significantly in the last decade.

In April 2006, information about two more rings was published, one of them appearing blue and the other red. The rest of the planet's rings appear grey.

So 27 moons and 15 rings at the last count.

Answer 4

Yes and there are five black rings around Uranus too (altough they may have discovered another) My answer is not a joke (nevertheles i havent stopped laughing! lol). There is a forum on Universe today where they can answer what the moonas are called.
Yep 27 moons and here is a link to the black rings around Uranus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus#Planetary_rings

Answer 5

I was curious why Alexander Pope got to have some of his characters as moons, and which of the 27 are Pope's characters rather than Shakespeare's? The vast majority sound Shakespearean to me,

Bianca didn't immediately ring bells for me (EastEnders of course) but she proves to be a character in both The Taming of the Shtrew and Othello.

Even Sycorax (a witch and Caliban's mother) and Setebos (a god), whom I had not heard of, prove to be characters from The Tempest (as are Caliban, Miranda, Prospero and Ariel).

Belinda, I find, is the name of a character in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock

But who are the other Papists?

Answer 6

it is like you are asking a 20 year old girl do you know alphabets. of course they have sissy. if i were you and you were me i would have given you 10 even if i dint know this. i must be stupid if i dint know. sorry but i have a good heart for some people. but if you answer any question of mine even if it is right or wrong i give you ten. but if you give me. remind me if you answer mine. tell me that you gave me a ten. i give anyone a ten provided they give me. maybe you are the first one.

Answer 7

Yep, plenty.

Check out the lovely chart at the bottom of this page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_satellites

Answer 8

yes it has 27 moons exactly.

Answer 9

yes it has..as far as i know there are 15 but this is an old estimate there may b more now...

Answer 10

No, a few hairs and the occasional spot but never moons. lol