Editing Oberon

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.

Latest revision Your text
Line 1: Line 1:
−
{| cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="margin:25px 0 0 10px; border:3px solid lightsteelblue;width:250px; font-size:90%; font-family:'Arial','Helvetica'; float: right; clear: right;"Template in Orbiter"
+
'''Oberon''' is a [[natural satellite]] of [[Uranus]].
−
!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2" align="center" |Oberon
 
−
|-
 
−
|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:OberonScrnshot.jpg|240px]]
 
−
|-
 
−
|colspan="2" align="center"|'''Oberon in Orbiter 2016 with D3D9 client, with Uranus in the background'''
 
−
|-
 
−
!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Designation
 
−
|-
 
−
|Name||align="right"|Oberon
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Reference body||align="right" width="30%"|Uranus
 
−
|-
 
−
!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Planetary mean orbits
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Epoch||align="right" width="50%"|2005.41409993155
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Semimajor axis (a)||align="right" width="50%"|583560909.561177 m
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Eccentricity (e)||align="right" width="30%"|0.00110658045344143
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Inclination (i)||align="right" width="30%"|97.87882122° <br> (1.70830769827032 radian)
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊)||align="right" width="30%"|167.7422432° <br> (2.92765443828649 radian)
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Longitude of periapsis (ϖ)||align="right" width="30%"|288.925047° <br> (5.04269336191529 radian)
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Mean longitude (L)||align="right" width="30%"|472.6703921° <br> (8.24965461905517 radian)
 
−
|-
 
−
!bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Selected physical parameters
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Mean radius||align="right" width="30%"|761400 m
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Mass||align="right" width="30%"|3.03×10<sup>21</sup> kg
 
−
|-
 
−
|width="30%"|Note||align="right" width="30%"|*Elements given are from Oberon.cfg (Orbiter 2005P1)
 
−
|}
 
−
 
 
−
''[[w:Oberon (moon)|Oberon]]'' is the second largest and second most massive [[natural satellite]] of [[Uranus]]. It was discovered on 11 January 1787 by [[w:William Herschel|William Herschel]], and was named after a character from William Shakespeare's ''[[w:A Midsummer Night's Dream|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''. It is one of the five satellites of Uranus discovered prior to the Voyager 2 encounter of January 1986.
 
−
 
 
−
Oberon has a radius of 761.4km. Its surface gravity is 0.349m/s^2, 0.036 that of Earth. A [[Surface Orbit|surface orbit]] has a speed of 515m/s, and the [[Escape Velocity|escape velocity]] is 729m/s. A surface orbit has a [[Orbital Period|period]] of 9283s (about 2 hours 35 minutes).
 
−
 
 
−
Oberon's orbit about Uranus is almost perfectly circular and equatorial, and has a radius of 583400km. Its orbital period is 13.463 days. This is the outermost of the five major satellites.
 
−
 
 
−
Like all the satellites of Uranus, Oberon's axis is tilted 98° relative to the ecliptic plane. It is locked in synchronous rotation, like the Earth's moon. When Voyager flew past, Uranus and all its satellites were near their southern summer [[solstice]], and in this case it means that only the southern hemispheres were visible. As a consequence, only the southern hemisphere of Oberon has been mapped in any detail.
 
−
 
 
−
Oberon has a mean density of about 1.6 times that of water. From this, we can conclude that the satellite is mostly water ice, with a little bit of rock mixed in.
 
−
 
 
−
== Oberon in Orbiter ==
 
−
Oberon was first introduced to [[Orbiter]] in October 2002 with the release of uranus-neptune-moons.zip add-on, then included into the release of Orbiter 2002-P1. There have been a number of updates since then, the latest with Uranian Moons for Orbiter 2016 in May 2024.
 
−
 
 
−
{|class="wikitable sortable” style="text-align: center"
 
−
|-
 
−
|colspan="8"|<center>'''Orbiter versions and add-ons which include Oberon'''</center>
 
−
|-
 
−
!Add-on!!Source!!Version!!Author!!Type!!Release Date!!Compatibility!!Wiki article
 
−
|-
 
−
|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/2005-with-p1-patch-files.5432/ 2005 (with P1 patch files)]||O-F Resources||050216||martins||Orbiter Download||16 February 2005||Orbiter 2005||
 
−
|-
 
−
|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/orbiter-2003-p2.5433/ Orbiter 2003-P2]||O-F Resources||031217||martins||Orbiter Download||17 December 2003||Orbiter 2003-P2||
 
−
|-
 
−
|[https://www.orbiter-forum.com/resources/orbiter-2003-p1.5434/ Orbiter 2003-P1]||O-F Resources||031105||martins||Orbiter Download||5 November 2003||Orbiter 2003-P1|
 
−
|-
 
−
||[https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?DLID=&Name=&FileName=uranus-neptune-moons.zip&Author=&CatID=root Uranus / Neptune Moons Addon]||AVSIM||||Robert Stettner (Foxtrot)||Scenery||12 October 2002||||
 
−
|}
 
−
 
 
−
<gallery widths="200" heights="200">
 
−
Oberon021012.jpg|<center>Oberon from uranus-neptune-moons.zip in Orbiter 2002</center>
 
−
Oberon-orbiter2002p3.jpg|<center>Oberon in Orbiter 2002P3</center>
 
−
Oberon-Orbiter2003P2.jpg|<center>Oberon in Orbiter 2003P2</center>
 
−
Oberon-Orbiter2005P1.jpg|<center>Oberon in Orbiter 2005P1</center>
 
−
oberon.jpg|<center>[[w:Voyager 2|Voyager 2]] image of Oberon<br>From Wikimedia Commons.</center>
 
−
</gallery>
 
−
 
 
 
{{UranusSat}}
 
{{UranusSat}}
−
{{SolarSystem}}
+
{{Nsat-Stub}}
−
 
 
−
[[Category:Articles]]
 
−
[[Category:Celestial bodies]]
 
−
[[Category:Solar System]]
 
−
[[Category:Natural satellites]]
 
−
[[Category:Satellites of Uranus]]
 

Please note that all contributions to OrbiterWiki are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 (see OrbiterWiki:Copyrights for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following hCaptcha:

Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)

Templates used on this page:

Retrieved from "https://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Oberon"