Titania
The largest moon of Uranus.
Titania is the largest moon of Uranus, 1,578 km across. William Herschel discovered it in 1787, and it is named after the fairy queen of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
It is made of roughly equal amounts of ice and rock and its surface is cut by huge canyons and scarps.
Quick Facts
- Adjectives
- Titanian t
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- t
- ɑː
- n
- i
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- n
- Discoverer
- William Herschel
- Discovered
- January 11, 1787
- Average speed
- 3.64 km/s
- Satellite of
- Uranus
- Surface gravity
- 3.4550, 788.4, 3 m/s²
- Escape velocity
- 3.4550, 788.4 km/s
- Rotation
- presumed synchronous
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