Puck

Moon

The largest of Uranus's inner moons, named after the mischievous sprite from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Facts

TypeMoon
OrbitsUranus
Distance from parent body86,010 km
Diameter162 km
Mass1.91 × 10^18 kg
Surface gravity0.019 m/s²
Temperature-209°C
Orbital period1 days
Apparent magnitude19.8
Redshift0
Discovered1985

Puck in context

At 162 km across, Puck is 4.7 percent of the diameter of Earth's Moon.

Its mass is less than a thousandth of the mass of Earth.

It orbits Uranus at 86,010 km, closer in than the Moon orbits Earth.

A single orbit takes 18.3 hours.

An average temperature of 64 K works out at -209 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.

It has been on record since 1985.

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