Francisco | |
Mpc Name: | Uranus XXII |
Pronounced: | [1] |
Adjectives: | Franciscan, Fransiscian, Francisconian |
Discoverer: | |
Discovered: | August 13, 2001 (confirmed in 2003) |
Mean Orbit Radius: | 4,276,000 km |
Eccentricity: | 0.1459 |
Period: | 266.56 d |
Inclination: | 145° (to the ecliptic) |
Satellite Of: | Uranus |
Mean Radius: | 11 km (estimate) |
Surface Area: | ~1,500 km2 (estimate) |
Volume: | ~6,000 km3 (estimate) |
Mass: | ~7.2 kg (estimate) |
Density: | ~1.3 g/cm3 (assumed) |
Surface Grav: | ~0.0025 m/s2 (estimate) |
Escape Velocity: | ~0.0094 km/s (estimate) |
Rotation: | ? |
Axial Tilt: | ? |
Albedo: | 0.04 (assumed) |
Single Temperature: | ~65 K (estimate) |
Francisco is the innermost irregular satellite of Uranus.
Francisco was discovered by Matthew J. Holman, et al. and Brett J. Gladman, et al. in 2003 from pictures taken in 2001 and given the provisional designation S/2001 U 3.Confirmed as Uranus XXII, it was named after a lord in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.