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Puck  

Definition

  • Puck is the twelfth moon in order of distance from Uranus. It is is named after one of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and is also known as Uranus XV. Puck was one of 10 new moons discovered in 1986 from images sent back by Voyager 2 and the only one found soon enough to allow further images of it to be captured by the spacecraft. These reveal a roughly spherical shape pockmarked by several large craters, three of which have been named (Bogle, Butz, and Lob). (Encyclopedia of Science, by David Darling, https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/P/Puck.html)

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  • Uranus XV

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  • French

  • Uranus XV

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-MD8FGHDJ-C

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