Discovery of Juliet

Juliet is one of the inner moons of Uranus, about 90 kilometres across, found in January 1986 in images taken by Voyager 2 and credited to Stephen Synnott. It circles Uranus very close to the planet, near the ring system, among a group of closely packed small moons. The moon is named after the heroine of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, following the convention of naming Uranian satellites after characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Juliet is dark and roughly oval in shape, and the only close images of it were taken in the Voyager flyby, which is still the only spacecraft visit to Uranus. Because of its gravitational interactions with neighbouring moons, its orbit is expected to change over long periods.

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