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  Uranus' Moon Belinda
Belinda was named after the heroine in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
This image of Belinda was acquired by Voyager 2 on January 23, 1986.
Belinda is shown in the center of the small box and has been enlarged in the inset box.
www.solarviews.com /eng/belinda.htm   (100 words)

  
 Belinda Eaton - Artist Info
Belinda’s nomadic existence has allowed her to always be perceiving life around her with the fresh enthusiastic eyes of the newcomer seeing things for the first time, resulting in the unique perspective of what is “Belinda’s world”.
Belinda Eaton exhibited her portrait of Cilla Black in the Star Portraits with Rolf Harris Exhibition at the County Hall Gallery, London from May 27th-July 3rd 2005.
Belinda will be exhibiting her paintings at the Art Affair Gallery in Cannes, France, from December 15th 2006 onwards.
www.belindaeaton.com /info.htm   (333 words)

  
 Uranus Database
The moons are 8 to 10 miles across (12 to 16 km) and were discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope.
The newly detected moons orbit closer to the planet than the five major Uranian satellites, which are each several hundred miles wide.
The Hubble telescope spotted this moon orbiting between the moons Puck, the largest satellite found by the Voyager spacecraft, and Miranda, the innermost of the five largest Uranian satellites.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /blobrana/database/uranus.html   (1115 words)

  
 Belinda (moon)
Belinda (bə-lin'-də, IPA: [/bəˈlɪndə/]) is an inner satellite of Uranus.
Belinda was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 1986-01-13, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 5.
Based on light curves and direct imaging, Belinda is apparently a very elongated object with its lower bound of prolateness being 0.4.
www.link-ex.net /wiki_en/?title=Belinda_(moon)   (125 words)

  
 Belinda - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Belinda is a moon of the planet Uranus.
Belinda Stronach is Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons.
Belinda is the name of a fictional character in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Belinda   (98 words)

  
 Belinda (moon)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Moon Tool [Windows] A desktop application that displays the times of the various phases of the moon and a picture of the current phase of the moon.
Summer Moon Illusion An explanation of the illusion that the Moon, low on the horizon, is actually bigger then when seen higher in the sky.
Moon Phases The phases of the moon are explained.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Belinda_(moon).html   (717 words)

  
 Moon Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The gravitational attraction of the Moon is responsible for the tides on Earth.
The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 1, the first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, and the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3, all in 1959.
Topography of the Moon, referenced to the lunar geoid.
216.92.85.60 /encyclopedia/Moon   (3005 words)

  
 Belinda compared to the Moon   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Belinda is 0.02 times the diameter of the Moon.
Belinda is 2.09 times the diameter of Helene (a satellite of Saturn).
Belinda is 5.4 times the diameter of Deimos (a satellite of Mars).
www.ic.arc.nasa.gov /projects/bayes-group/Atlas/size/Belinda/Moon.html   (99 words)

  
 Belinda
Belinda is a satellite of the planet Uranus.
Compared with the satellites of other planets of the solar system, Belinda is a small Moon with a diameter of 68 km and an unknown mass.
Belinda is an average distance of 75255 km from Uranus and completes its revolution of Uranus in 0.62 days.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /moons/belinda.htm   (61 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Belinda (moon)
Belinda (bə-lin'-də, /bəˈlɪndə/) is an inner satellite of Uranus.
Belinda was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 1986-01-13, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 5.
Based on light curves and direct imaging, Belinda is apparently a very elongated object with its lower bound of prolateness being 0.4.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Belinda_(moon)   (133 words)

  
 Uranus, moons
Two more moons were found by William Lassell in 1851 and named Ariel and Umbriel; G. Kuiper discovered Miranda in 1948.
In an unusual move, in late 2001, the International Astronomical Union stripped the title of “moon” from a small body seen in images taken by Voyager and previously reported to be orbiting Uranus.
It appeared to be in nearly the same orbit as another moon, Belinda, about 75,000 km from Uranus, and, based on its brightness in the Voyager images, to have a diameter of about 40 km.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/U/Uranusmoons.html   (378 words)

  
 Belinda (moon) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
It is named after the heroine of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
Belinda was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 1986-01-13, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 5.
Based on light curves and direct imaging, Belinda is apparently a very elongated object with its lower bound of prolateness being 0.4.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Belinda_%28moon%29   (166 words)

  
 Belinda_(Mond)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Belinda ist eine weibliche Gestalt aus Popes Komodie Der Raub der Locke.
Die ersten vier entdeckten Uranusmonde (Oberon, Titania, Ariel, Umbriel) wurden nach Vorschlagen von John Herschel, dem Sohn des Uranus-Entdeckers Wilhelm Herschel, benannt.
Belinda umkreist Uranus in einem mittleren Abstand von 72.255 km in rund 15 Stunden.
www.inhrenachrichten.de /nachrichten/Wikipedia.org/2005/03/12/Belinda_Mond.html   (130 words)

  
 Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System - Space A-Z
Moon of Jupiter, discovered 1979 by Voyager, 2nd closest moon to Jupiter, diameter 40 km (25 miles) In mythology, Adrastea was the daughter of Jupiter and Ananke and the distributor of punishments and rewards.
No moon landing took place during Apollo 13 due to an explosion onboard.
Belinda was the heroine in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
www.bobthealien.co.uk /atoz.htm   (614 words)

  
 Orbit Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There are also specific terms for orbits around particular bodies; things orbiting the Sun have a perihelion and aphelion, things orbiting the Earth have a perigee and apogee, and things orbiting the Moon have a perilune and apolune (or, synonymously, periselene and aposelene).
The equations of motion of the moon, planets and other bodies are known with great accuracy, and are used to generate tables for celestial navigation.
Mars' innermost moon Phobos is a prime example, and is expected to either impact Mars' surface or break up into a ring within 50 million years.
encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Orbit   (3316 words)

  
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The two moons are so faint they eluded detection by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which discovered 10 small satellites when it flew by the gas giant planet in 1986.
The newly detected moons are orbiting even closer to the planet than are the five major Uranian satellites, which are several hundred miles wide.
Excluding the outer moons that travel in elongated orbits and are probably captured asteroids, Uranus holds the record for the most satellites with 18 in its inner system.
www.astronomy-telescope.com   (1916 words)

  
 Belinda   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Of the 15 moons it is the 7th farthest from Uranus, with a standoff distance of 75,260 km.
Belinda one of the small moons, and is about as wide as the city of Los Angeles, just 70 km (47 miles).
Belinda one of the small moons, and is about as wide as the city of Los Angeles.
www.windows.ucar.edu /uranus/moons/belinda.html   (236 words)

  
 Belinda Subraman Presents
The author of The Moon Watcher’s Companion and Celestially Auspicious Occasions, she maintains a full schedule of workshops, lectures, readings, and retreats, as well as an e-mail newsletter, and has for the past four years been “Visionary in Residence” at the Omega Institute.
Belinda's own writing has grown to span a vast array of subjects, styles and publications.
Belinda balances her life as a writer and RN by painting, sculpting and political activism.
belinda_subraman.podomatic.com   (6765 words)

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