Juliet (moon)

There is also an asteroid called 1285 Julietta.

Juliet is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 3 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 2.<ref name="IAUC 4164" /> It is named after the heroine of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It is also designated Uranus XI.<ref name="Gazetteer" />

Juliet belongs to the Portia group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda, and Perdita.<ref name="Karkoschka, Hubble 2001" /> These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties.<ref name="Karkoschka, Hubble 2001" /> Other than its orbit,<ref name="Jacobson 1998" /> size of 150 × 74 km,<ref name="Karkoschka, Voyager 2001" /> and geometric albedo of 0.08,<ref name="Karkoschka, Hubble 2001" /> virtually nothing is known about Juliet.

In Voyager 2 imagery, Juliet appears as an elongated object, with its major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Juliet's prolate spheroid is 0.5 ± 0.3, which is a rather extreme value.<ref name="Karkoschka, Voyager 2001" /> Its surface is grey in color.<ref name="Karkoschka, Voyager 2001" />

Juliet may collide with Desdemona within the next 100 million years.<ref name="Duncan Lissauer 1997" />