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Online Astronomy eText: Satellites (Moons)
The Satellites (Moons) of Uranus: The Smaller Satellites (Moons) of Uranus

Named after Shakespearean Characters
Cordelia - Daughter of "King Lear"
Ophelia - Polonius' daughter, "Hamlet"
Bianca - Katherine's sister, "Taming of the Shrew"
Cressida - Heroine of "Troilus and Cressida"
Desdemona - Wife of "Othello"
Juliet - Heroine of "Romeo and Juliet"
Portia - Shylock's daughter in "The Merchant of Venice"
Rosalind - Daughter of the banished Duke in "As You Like It"
Puck - Fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Caliban - Prospero's slave in "The Tempest"
Trinculo - Shipwrecked jester in "The Tempest"
Stephano - Ship's butler in "The Tempest"
Sycorax - Witch, and mother of Caliban, in "The Tempest"
Prospero - Master of the island in "The Tempest"
Setebos - Character from "The Tempest"

Named after other characters
Belinda - Heroine in Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"

Unnamed
S/2003 U2
1986 U10
S/2003 U1
S/2001 U3
S/2003 U3
S/2001 U2

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