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− | + | '''Titania''' is the largest [[natural satellite]] of [[Uranus]]. Titania was discovered on January 11, 1787 by [[William Herschel]]. | |
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− | '''Titania''' | + | The name "'''Titania'''" and the names of all four satellites of Uranus then known were suggested by Herschel's son John Herschel in 1852 at the request of [[William Lassell]], who had discovered [[Ariel]] and [[Umbriel]] the year before. Lassell had earlier endorsed Herschel's 1847 naming scheme for the seven then-known satellites of [[Saturn]] and had named his newly-discovered eighth satellite [[Hyperion]] in accordance with Herschel's naming scheme in 1848. |
− | + | All of the moons of Uranus are named for characters from Shakespeare or Alexander Pope. '''Titania''' was named after Titania, the Queen of the Faeries in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". | |
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{{UranusSat}} | {{UranusSat}} | ||
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