Titania

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Titania
TitaniaOrbiter2016.jpg
Titania in Orbiter 2016 with D3D9
Designation
Name Titania
Reference body Uranus
Planetary mean orbits
Epoch 2010
Semimajor axis (a) 436150000 m
Eccentricity (e) 0.0013
Inclination (i) 97.88697451°
(1.706565 radian)
Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊) 167.7349988°
(2.925469 radian)
Longitude of periapsis (ϖ) 8.846009991°
(1.125598 radian)
Mean longitude (L) 261.319003°
(4.890308 radian)
Selected physical parameters
Mean radius 788.9 km
Mass 3.49×1021 kg
Note *Elements given are from Titania.cfg (2016)

Titania is the largest natural satellite of Uranus. Titania was discovered on January 11, 1787 by William Herschel.

The name Titania and the names of all four satellites of Uranus then known were suggested by William 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.

Titania in Orbiter

Titania was first introduced in Orbiter with the add-on uranus-neptune-moons.zip in October 2002.

Orbiter versions and add-ons which include Titania
Add-on Source Version Author Type Release Date Compatibility Wiki article
Uranus / Neptune Moons Addon AVSIM Robert Stettner (Foxtrot) Scenery 12 October 2002
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Numbered Satellites:| S/2023 U1

See also: Pronunciation key | rings of Uranus
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