An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

A small satellite of → Uranus, the second nearest to the planet, discovered from the images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986. Also denoted Uranus II, it has a diameter of 32 km. Ophelia is one of the two → shepherd moons that keep the planet’s Epsilon ring, the other being → Cordelia.

See also: Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.