Moon
The smallest of Uranus's major moons, with an extraordinarily varied, jumbled terrain.
| Type | Moon |
|---|---|
| Orbits | Uranus |
| Distance from parent body | 129,900 km |
| Diameter | 472 km |
| Mass | 6.40 × 10^19 kg |
| Surface gravity | 0.079 m/s² |
| Temperature | -213°C |
| Orbital period | 1 days |
| Apparent magnitude | 16.6 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | 1948 |
At 472 km across, Miranda is 14 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.
Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.
It orbits Uranus at 129,900 km, closer in than the Moon orbits Earth.
A single orbit takes 1.4 days.
An average temperature of 60 K works out at -213 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.
It has been on record since 1948.
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