Miranda
| Miranda | |
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| Miranda in Orbiter 2016 with D3D9 client | |
| Designation | |
| Name | Miranda, Uranus V |
| Reference body | Uranus |
| Planetary mean orbits | |
| Epoch | 2010.0 |
| Semimajor axis (a) | 129.87×106 m |
| Eccentricity (e) | 0.0014 |
| Inclination (i) | 96.44799101° (1.683335 radian) |
| Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊) | 163.4949965° (2.853526 radian) |
| Longitude of periapsis (ϖ) | 242.2809905° (4.228601 radian) |
| Mean longitude (L) | 143.0330121° (2.496397 radian) |
| Selected physical parameters | |
| Mean radius | 235800 m |
| Mass | 6.33×1019 kg |
| Note | *Elements given are from Miranda.cfg (Orbiter 2016) |
Miranda is innermost and smallest of the five moons of Uranus. It was discovered by Gerard Kuiper on 16 February 1948 at the McDonald Observatory in Texas in the United States.
Miranda in Orbiter
Miranda was first introduced to Orbiter in the add-on uranus-neptune-moons.zip in October 2002.
| Add-on | Source | Version | Author | Type | Release Date | Compatibility | Wiki article |
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| Orbiter 2003-P2 | O-F Resources | 031217 | martins | Orbiter Download | 17 December 2003 | Orbiter 2003-P2 | |
| Orbiter 2003-P1 | O-F Resources | 031105 | martins | Orbiter Download | 5 November 2003 | ||
| Uranus / Neptune Moons Addon | AVSIM | Robert Stettner (Foxtrot) | Scenery | 12 October 2002 | |||
Gallery
Miranda in Orbiter 2002 
Miranda in Orbiter 2002P3 
Miranda as seen by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986
from Wikimedia Commons
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| See also: Pronunciation key | rings of Uranus |
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