Portia
| Portia | |
|---|---|
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| Designation | |
| Name | Portia |
| Reference body | Uranus |
| Planetary mean orbits | |
| Epoch | 2005.41409993155 |
| Semimajor axis (a) | 66149306.2871059 m |
| Eccentricity (e) | 0.000839133914882086 |
| Inclination (i) | 97.74338855° (1.7059439523116 radian) |
| Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊) | 167.5914942° (2.92502337233249 radian) |
| Longitude of periapsis (ϖ) | 246.7906174° (4.30730883670517 radian) |
| Mean longitude (L) | 606.4767892° (10.5850168082542 radian) |
| Selected physical parameters | |
| Mean radius | 55310 m |
| Mass | 6.321×1016 kg |
| SidRotPeriod | 44323.2 (12.312 hours) |
| SidRotOffset | 0 |
| Obliquity | 1.4346 |
| LAN | 2.9255 |
| Note | *Elements given are from Portia.cfg (outerplanets-050125.zip) |
Portia (Uranus XII, S/1986 U 1) is one of the inner satellites of Uranus. It was discovered by the Voyager2 spacecraft in January 1986. It is named after the heroine in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Portia in Orbiter
Portia was first introduced into Orbiter with the add-on uranus.zip in November 2002.
| Add-on | Source | Version | Author | Type | Release Date | Compatibility | Wiki article |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Outer Planets 050329 Update | AVSIM | 050329 | Rolf Keibel Tony Dunn Carl Romanik |
Scenery | 30 March 2005 | ||
| The Outer Planets 050125 | AVSIM | 050125 | Rolf Keibel Tony Dunn |
Scenery | 26 January 2005 | Orbiter 2005-P1 | |
| Uranus Minor Moons | O-F Resources | 2004-12-14 | Nighthawke | Scenery | 14 December 2004 | ||
| Uranus | AVSIM | Rolf Keibel | Scenery | 5 November 2002 | |||
Portia from uranus.zip in Orbiter 2002 
Portia from UranusMoons.zip in Orbiter 2003P2 
Portia from outerplanets-050125.zip in Orbiter 2005P1 
Portia imaged by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986,
from Wikimedia Commons
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