Rosalind (moon)

There is also an asteroid called 900 Rosalinde.

Rosalind is an inner satellite of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 13 January 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 4.<ref name="IAUC 4164" /> It was named after the daughter of the banished Duke in William Shakespeare's play As You Like It. It is also designated Uranus XIII.<ref name="Gazetteer" />

Rosalind belongs to Portia group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Juliet, 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" /> radius of 36 km,<ref name="Karkoschka, Voyager 2001" /> and geometric albedo of 0.08,<ref name="Karkoschka, Hubble 2001" /> virtually nothing is known about Rosalind.

In Voyager 2 imagery, Rosalind appears as an almost spherical object. The ratio of axes of Rosalind's prolate spheroid is 0.8–1.0.<ref name="Karkoschka, Voyager 2001" /> Its surface is grey in color.<ref name="Karkoschka, Voyager 2001" />

Rosalind is very close to a 3:5 orbital resonance with Cordelia.<ref name="Murray Thompson 1990" />

See also

• Moons of Uranus

External links

• Rosalind Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration
• Uranus' Known Satellites (by Scott S. Sheppard)