What are the Moons of Uranus?
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has 27 recognized moons, less than half the number orbiting either Jupiter or Saturn. Five are massive enough to have a spherical shape: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. All of Uranus’ moons are named after characters from the works of Shakespeare or Alexander Pope. The smaller moons are named Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Puck, Mab, and many others. A certain section around Uranus, between its main rings and the orbit of the moon Miranda, is very crowded, with numerous small moons locked in unstable orbits. Eventually these moons may collide with each other. The moons of Uranus were only observed up close by the Voyager 2 space probe in 1986. Otherwise, numerous Uranian moons have been discovered by ground telescopes, but they mostly appear as fuzzy dots. Uranus’ largest two satellites, Titania and Oberon, were discovered by the same astronomer who discovered Uranus itself, the British Willi
Since it is a project, just visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Ur… (the order and information is in the website) Uranus has twenty-seven named moons. Five of them are massive enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium and so would be considered dwarf planets if they were in orbit about the Sun.
