Bianca (Moon) Saturday, June 20, 2009


Bianca was named after the sister of Katherine in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew. It is the third known satellite of Uranus and was discovered by Voyager 2.

Bianca Statistics
Discovered byVoyager 2
Date of discovery1986
Mass (kg)?
Equatorial radius (km)22
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1)3.4494e-03
Mean density (gm/cm^3)?
Mean distance from Uranus (km)59,160
Rotational period (days)?
Orbital period (days)0.434577
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec)9.90
Orbital eccentricity0.001
Orbital inclination (degrees)0.16
Visual geometric albedo0.07
Magnitude (Vo)23.0

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