Miranda

Moon

The smallest of Uranus's major moons, with an extraordinarily varied, jumbled terrain.

Facts

TypeMoon
OrbitsUranus
Distance from parent body129,900 km
Diameter472 km
Mass6.40 × 10^19 kg
Surface gravity0.079 m/s²
Temperature-213°C
Orbital period1 days
Apparent magnitude16.6
Redshift0
Discovered1948

Miranda in context

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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