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Short Description Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites. Like the other large moons of Uranus, Miranda orbits close to its planet's equatorial plane. Because Uranus orbits the Sun on its side, Miranda's orbit is perpendicular to the ecliptic and shares Uranus's extreme seasonal cycle. At just 470 km in diameter, Miranda is one of the smallest objects in the Solar System known to be spherical under its own gravity. Of the bodies that are known to be in hydrostatic equilibrium, only Saturn's moon Mimas is smaller. Miranda has one of the most extreme and varied topographies of any object in the Solar System, including Verona Rupes, a 5- to 10-kilometer-high scarp that is the tallest cliff in the Solar System, and chevron-shaped tectonic features called coronae. Miranda (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Discovered by Gerard P. Kuiper Discovery date February 16, 1948 Type Moon AddInfo Uranus V Satellite of Uranus Orbit Prograde Rotation Synchronous Shape Equilibrium spheroid Geological activity In the past Apoapsis 06 130 041 km Periapsis 06 129 703 km Semi-major axis 06 129 390 km Distance from Sun 02 19.218 4 au /15 Eccentricity 0.001 3 Orbital period 1.413 479 day Orbital speed 01 6.66 km/s Inclination to the equator 004.232° Diameter/Size 471.6 ± 1.4 km Dimensions 480 × 468.4 × 465.8 km Mass 1019×6.59 kg Density 01 1.20 ± 0.15 g/cm3 Surface gravity 0.079 m/s2 Escape velocity 03 193 m/s Rotation period 1.413 479 day Axial tilt 0° Albedo geometric 0.32 Temperature mean 02 60 K Temperature max 02 84 K Apparent magnitude 15.8 - Comments
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