An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

The fourteenth and largest of → Uranus’s known satellites. It has a diameter of 1578 km and orbits its planet at a mean distance of 436,270 km. Titania was discovered by Herschel in 1787. Also called Uranus IV.

See also: Titania is the Queen of the Fairies and wife of Oberon in Shakespeare’s Midsummer-Night’s Dream.