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Cordelia (moon)

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Through Hubble Space Telescope, William Shakespeare and Rings of Uranus

Other than its orbit, size of 50 × 36 km, and geometric albedo of 0.06, virtually nothing is known about it. In the Voyager 2 images, Cordelia appears as an elongated object with its major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Cordelia's prolate spheroid is 0.7±0.2.

Cordelia acts as the inner shepherd satellite for Uranus's ε ring. Cordelia's orbit is within Uranus's synchronous orbit radius, and is therefore slowly decaying due to tidal deceleration.

Cordelia is very close to a 5:3 orbital resonance with Rosalind.

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