Puck
Uranus XV - 1985U1
Puck was named after a mischievous fairy in Shakespeare's play
Midsummer Night's Dream. It is the tenth known satellite of
Uranus and was discovered by Voyager 2.
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| Discovered by | Stephen Synnott
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| Date of discovery | 1985
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| Mass (kg) | ?
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| Equatorial radius (km) | 77
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| Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) | 1.2073e-02
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| Mean density (gm/cm^3) | ?
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| Mean distance from Uranus (km) | 86,010
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| Rotational period (days) | ?
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| Orbital period (days) | 0.761832
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| Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) | 8.22
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| Orbital eccentricity | 0.000
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| Orbital inclination (degrees) | 0.31
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| Visual geometric albedo | 0.07
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| Magnitude (Vo) | 20.2
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