Puck
Puck is the twelfth moon in order of distance from Uranus. It is is named after one of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and is also known as Uranus XV. Puck was one of 10 new moons discovered in 1986 from images sent back by Voyager 2 and the only one found soon enough to allow further images of it to be captured by the spacecraft. These reveal a roughly spherical shape pockmarked by several large craters, three of which have been named (Bogle, Butz, and Lob).
discovery | 1986, by Voyager 2 |
semimajor axis | 86,010 km (53,460 mi) |
diameter | 162 km (101 mi) |
orbital period | 0.762 days (18 h 17 min) |
orbital eccentricity | 0.0001 |
orbital inclination | 0.32° |
visual albedo | 0.07 (assumed) |