How many moons does Uranus have?

Answer 1

It has gone up to 27 since the references some of you have consulted were written. Also Jupiter has 63 known moons and Saturn 56 so Uranus is 3rd not top in a league table of moons; Neptune has 13 and is 4th then follows Mars with 2 and Earth with just the one.

And the 27 are:

URANUS' Natural satellites:
in order outwards from the planet, with their orbital periods:

1 Cordelia 0.335034 days
2 Ophelia 0.376400 days
3 Bianca 0.434579 days
4 Cressida 0.463570 days
5 Desdemona 0.473650 days
6 Juliet 0.493065 days
7 Portia 0.513196 days
8 Rosalind 0.558460 days
9 Cupid 0.618 days
10 Belinda 0.623527 days
11 Perdita 0.638 days
12 Puck 0.761833 days
13 Mab 0.923 days
14 Miranda 1.413479 days
15 Ariel 2.520379 days
16 Umbriel 4.144177 days
17 Titania 8.705872 days
18 Oberon 13.463239 days
19 Francisco 267.12 days
20 Caliban 579.39 days
21 Stephano 677.48 days
22 Trinculo 748.83 days
23 Sycorax 1285.62 days
24 Margaret 1654.32 days
25 Prospero 1962.95 days
26 Setebos 2196.35 days
27 Ferdinand 2805.51 days

Uranus has 27 known moons. The first two moons (Titania and Oberon) were discovered by William Herschel on March 13, 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 (after whom the Kuiper Belt is named) discovered the moon Miranda. These five are by far the biggest five of fhe 27 Uranian moons.

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.

The region between the main rings and Miranda appears to be very crowded. The small moons there are constantly perturbed by each other. The system is chaotic and apparently unstable, and simulations show that the moons may perturb each other into crossing orbits which may result in collisions between the moons

Answer 2

Does Uranus Have Any Moons

Answer 3

Uranus has 20 named moons plus 1 recently discovered one which as yet has not been given an official name; it thus has the most known moons of any of the planets.
Unlike the other bodies in the solar system which have names from classical mythology, Uranus' moons take their names from the writings of Shakespeare and Pope.
They form three distinct classes: the 11 small very dark inner ones discovered by Voyager 2, the 5 large ones (right), and the newly discovered much more distant ones.
Most have nearly circular orbits in the plane of Uranus' equator (and hence at a large angle to the plane of the ecliptic); the outer 4 are much more elliptical.

Answer 4

Uranus has 21 moons

Cordelia
Ophelia
Bianca
Cresida
Desdemona
Juliet
Portia
Rosalind
Belinda1986U10
Puck
Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon
Caliban
Stephano
Sycorox
Prospero
Setebos

Click on the URL below for additional information concerning Uranus moons.

www.solarviews.com/eng/uranus.htm

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Answer 5

URANUS has 27 moons (Sattelites)

Answer 6

clever question,whatever the answer i sure would like to see uranus

Answer 7

What is with all the mooning? Go to http://www.wikipedia.org and do your own homework.

Answer 8

uarnus has at least 21 moons... i think well... i hope im right.

Answer 9

16 i think

Answer 10

My anus doesn't have any moons. But it sure has a superminute black hole.