JULIET (MOON)

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'Juliet' ''(jew'-lee-ət, jew'-lee-et,'' ) is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by ''Voyager 2'' on 1986-01-03, and was given the temporary designation 'S/1986 U 2'.^[3] It is named after the heroine of William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet''. It is also designated 'Uranus XI'.^[4]
Juliet belongs to Portia Group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda and Perdita. These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties. Unfortunately, other than its orbit, radius of 53 km and geometric albedo of 0.08 virtually nothing is known about it.
At the Voyager 2 images Juliet appears as an elongated object, the major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axises of the Juliet's prolate spheroid is 0.5 ± 0.3, which is rather an extreme value. Its surface is grey in color.

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1. Voyager's Eleventh Discovery of a Satellite of Uranus and Photometry and the First Size Measurements of Nine Satellites, , Erich, Karkoschka, Icarus, 2001
2. Comprehensive Photometry of the Rings and 16 Satellites of Uranus with the Hubble Space Telescope, , Erich, Karkoschka, Icarus, 2001
3. IAU Circular No. 4164
4. Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers

External links

Juliet Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration