An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The innermost of → Uranus’ known satellites. Cordelia has a diameter of 26 km and orbits Uranus at a mean distance of 49,752 km. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 in 1986. Cordelia is the inner → shepherd moon for Uranus’s Epsilon ring. → Ophelia.

See also: Named after the daughter of Lear in Shakespeare’s play King Lear.