New names for Uranus moons

[The Singing Badger]

New names have been announced for some of Uranus's smaller moons. They are all from Shakespearean plays.

S/2003 U2 = Cupid (from Timon of Athens)
S/1986 U10 = Perdita (from The Winter's Tale)
S/2003 U1 = Mab (from Romeo and Juliet)
S/2001 U3 = Francisco (from The Tempest)
S/2003 U3 = Margaret (from Much Ado About Nothing)
S/2001 U2 = Ferdinand (from The Tempest)

http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/append7.html

[selden]

Grant Hutchison previously announced that his "poormoons.ssc" had been updated to include the new names.

See http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celest ... moons.html

[The Singing Badger]

Wonderful!