Puck Pictured to the right is just one of the many small moons of Uranus.

Uranus has more known moons than any other planet in our solar system. Yet all the way up until 1986 only 5 were known. In fact 16 new moons were discovered between 1986 and 2000 AD and 5 between 1997 and 2000. Caliban and Sycorax were discovered by Cornell University astronomer Philip Nicholson and Joseph Burns in 1997, and even 3 more new moons were discovered in July of 1999 by a team of astronomers Gladman, Holman, J.J. Kavelaars and Jean-Marc Petit from several different telescopes around the world. Besides the 5 other major moons there is also two shepard moons that orbit Uranus near its rings called Cardelia and Ophelia. These moons as well as many more were discovered by the Voyager space craft, when it flew by Uranus in 1986. Other minor moons of Uranus include Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Roselind, Belinda, Puck, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Juliet and S/1986 U10. It has been tradition to always name the moons of Uranus after Shakespearean characters. Even though Uranus has so many moons, none of its moons are even close to being larger then the only moon of Earth.

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