Oberon

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Oberon is one of Uranus's largest and outermost major moons, known for its heavily cratered, icy surface and dark, ancient terrain.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Oberon canonical 5
Oberon (moon) 1
Oberon from literature 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf astronomical object
moon of Uranus
natural satellite
albedo_geometric 0.31
averageOrbitalDistanceFromUranus_km 583520
axialTilt_degrees 0
belongsToGroup classical moons of Uranus
belongsToPlanetarySystem Solar System
Uranian system
catalogDesignation Umbriel
surface form: Uranus IV
celestialBodyType satellite
diameter_km 1522.8
discoveredBy William Herschel
discoveredWithInstrument telescope
discoveryDate 1787-01-11
discoveryLocation England
flybyDate 1986-01-24
hasGlobalMagneticField no
hasSubstantialAtmosphere no
imagedBy Voyager 2
internalStructure likely differentiated
largestCraterName Hamlet
mass_kg 3.014e21
meanDensity_g_per_cm3 1.63
meanRadius_km 761.4
meanSurfaceTemperature_K 70
namedAfter Oberon
surface form: Oberon (king of the fairies in Shakespeare)
nameOrigin Shakespearean literature
orbitalEccentricity 0.0014
orbitalInclination_degrees 0.07
orbitalPeriod_days 13.463
orbits Uranus
possibleInterior icy mantle
rocky core
primaryObservationWavelength visible light
relativeDistanceInUranianSystem outermost major moon of Uranus
relativeSizeInUranianSystem second-largest moon of Uranus
rotationalState synchronous rotation
rotationPeriod_days 13.463
semiMajorAxis_km 583520
shape approximately spherical
surfaceColor dark red
surfaceComposition rocky material
water ice
surfaceFeature ancient terrain
bright crater ejecta
chasmata (canyons)
dark terrain
heavily cratered terrain
visitedBy Voyager 2

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Uranus largeMoon Oberon
Lagoona influencedBy Oberon
Lagoona relatedTo Oberon
this entity surface form: Oberon from literature
Lagoona relatedTo Oberon
this entity surface form: Oberon from mythology
Oberon Plateau primaryBody Oberon
Oberon Plateau namedAfter Oberon
this entity surface form: Oberon (moon)