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Ariel (Uranus I)
  آریل  
Ariel (#)
Fr.: Ariel  

A satellite of → Uranus discovered by Lassell in 1851. It is orbiting at a mean distance of 192,000 kilometers with a period of 2.52 days.

Etymology (EN): Ariel, a spirit in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.