irregular moon

The outer irregular moons would not be visible to the naked eye.

Themisto is the innermost irregular moon and not part of a known family.

It is an irregular moon that orbits in a retrograde direction.

A spot on a wall, high above a chest of drawers, luminesced like a small, irregular moon.

Beginning in 2000, three dozen additional irregular moons have been found using ground-based telescopes.

The diagram illustrates the orbits of those irregular moons discovered so far.

Irregular moons with retrograde orbits are shown in dark grey.

They are believed to have formed in orbit about their primary, as opposed to irregular moons, which were captured.

All the irregular moons are probably captured objects that were trapped by Uranus soon after its formation.

In 2006, astronomers using the Subaru 8.2 m telescope reported the discovery of further nine irregular moons.

A cluster of lights hovered around Arganthonios' irregular moon: the garrison was fighting back.

The five outer moons are similar to the irregular moons of other giant planets.

Margaret, the only known irregular moon of Uranus with a prograde orbit, is shown in light grey.

This is an irregular moon.

She stared up at an irregular moon, and I thought she was blinking back tears, but I couldn't be sure.

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune also have some irregular moons, which orbit far from their respective planets.

In astronomy, an irregular moon is a natural satellite following a distant, inclined, and often eccentric and retrograde orbit.

Uranus's irregular moons have elliptical and strongly inclined (mostly retrograde) orbits at great distances from the planet.

The largest of the irregular moons is Phoebe, the ninth moon of Saturn, and was discovered at the end of the 19th century.

Uranus was the last giant planet without any known irregular satellites, but since 1997 nine distant irregular moons have been identified using ground-based telescopes.

Erriapus - Irregular moon of Saturn, where one of Gibbs' secret bunker-lairs is located.

Irregular moons are small satellites with large-radii, inclined, and frequently retrograde orbits, believed to have been acquired by the parent planet through a capture process.

After Phoebe, Ymir is the largest of the known retrograde irregular moons, with an estimated diameter of only 18 km.

Uranian moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons, and nine irregular moons.

The largest irregular moon is Neptune's moon Triton, which is thought to be a captured Kuiper belt object.