Cordelia (moon)
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Cordelia is the innermost known moon of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on January 20, 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 7.[1] It was not detected again until the Hubble Space Telescope observed it in 1997.[2][3] Cordelia takes its name from the youngest daughter of Lear in William Shakespeare's King Lear. It is also designated Uranus VI.[4]
Other than its orbit,[5] size of Template:Cvt,[6] and geometric albedo of 0.06,[2] little is known about it. In the Voyager 2 images, Cordelia appears as an elongated object with its major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Cordelia's prolate spheroid is Script error: No such module "val"..[6]
Cordelia acts as the inner shepherd satellite for Uranus's ε ring.[7] Cordelia's orbit is within Uranus's synchronous orbit radius, and is therefore slowly decaying due to tidal deceleration.[6]
Cordelia is very close to a 5:3 orbital resonance with Rosalind.[8]
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