Английская Википедия:Belinda (moon)

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Belinda is an inner satellite of the planet Uranus. Belinda was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 13 January 1986 and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 5.Шаблон:Sfn It is named after the heroine of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. It is also designated Uranus XIV.Шаблон:Sfn

Belinda belongs to the Portia group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Juliet, Cupid, Rosalind and Perdita.Шаблон:Sfn These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties.Шаблон:Sfn Other than its orbit,Шаблон:Sfn radius of 45 kmШаблон:Sfn and geometric albedo of 0.08Шаблон:Sfn virtually nothing is known about it.

The Voyager 2 images show Belinda as an elongated object with its major axis pointing towards Uranus. The moon is very elongated, with its short axis 0.5 ± 0.1 times the long axis.Шаблон:Sfn Its surface is grey in color.Шаблон:Sfn

The inner moon system is unstable over timescales of several millions of years. Belinda and Cupid will probably be the first pair of moons to collide, in 100,000 to 10 million years' time depending on the densities of the Portia-group satellites, due to resonant interactions with the much smaller Cupid.[1]

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Шаблон:Uranus Шаблон:Moons of Uranus Шаблон:Solar System moons (compact)