Rosalind is an inner moon of Uranus, discovered in January 1986 in images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft and credited to Stephen Synnott. It is about 70 kilometres across and travels on a nearly circular orbit close to the planet, between Portia and Belinda, within a crowded group of small moons that interact gravitationally. Like the other small inner moons it is too faint to be observed from Earth with ordinary telescopes, and very little is known about it beyond what Voyager revealed. It is named after the heroine of Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It, in keeping with the convention of naming Uranian moons after Shakespearean characters.
Before and after
- 3 January 1986Discovery of Juliet
- 3 January 1986Discovery of Portia
- 9 January 1986Discovery of Cressida
- 13 January 1986Discovery of Desdemona
- 13 January 1986Discovery of Rosalind
- 13 January 1986Discovery of Belinda
- 18 January 1986Discovery of Perdita
- 20 January 1986Discovery of Cordelia
- 20 January 1986Discovery of Ophelia
More in Universe & space
- 22 June 1978Discovery of Charon
- 19 February 1986Launch of Mir
- 24 April 1990Launch of Hubble Space Telescope
- 1998Supernovae show that cosmic expansion is accelerating
- 20 November 1998Launch of International Space Station
- 10 April 2019The first image of a black hole
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