Talk:Miranda (moon)

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Miranda (moon) article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Untitled

According to The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is pronounced [mih-RAN-duh]. This is confirmed with the Shakespeare Recording Society CD. kwami

Improve it please

under so many projects' scope, yet so few about this object.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.98.44.202 (talk) 12:46, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Verona Rupes

Article on Verona Rupes states the height of Verona Rupes as 12miles, but this article has it at 10km. One of them probably needs fixing. BevanFindlay 11:20, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen that 20 km claim somewhere, but most values are more conservative. Is there more reliable source than Guinness?--JyriL ^talk 10:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A ref search gave me APOD 2005-03-15, and because it linked to Guinness I cited them.

I just did another search and found

10km: Meech, Karen J.. Astrobiology 740: ice observing techniques. 2006-01-27,
20km: U.S. Geological Survey. 2003-05-08, and
20km: Birmingham, C.; N. Ricchiazzi; B. Smuda. PHYS 0133: Astronomy. 2005 (which uses this article as on 2005-10-11 as the only Verona ref).

So, say 10-20km and ref Meech 2006 also, or just 10? -- Jeandré, 2006-08-06t08:35z

Is there any value for Verona Rupes mentioned in scientific journals, like Icarus? ADS, Google Scholar, and Science Direct yield no articles mentioning the height.--JyriL ^talk 16:49, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The original caption for the scarp image in the article says The fault may be 5 km (3 mi) high, or higher than the walls of the Grand Canyon on Earth. [1].--JyriL ^talk 16:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Something's wrong in the orbital data: we have:

  Semi-major axis 	129,390 km
  Mean radius 	129,872 km

- but the mean ought to be less than the semi-major value. I don't have the information to correct it. Chris C 16:48, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hubble Telescope ability

Miranda as seen by the the 8.2 meter telescope at Paranal Observatory.

Can the Hubble telescope see the "chevron" feature that was so strikingly visible in Voyager 2 photographs?

Since it's been 23 years since the flyby (southern summer solstice or close to it), and that's one quarter of a year, it stands to reason that right now, the planet is at southern autumnal equinox and northern vernal equinox. Nearly the entire surfaces of the planet and its moons should now be rotating in and out of view every few hours or days, depending on their rotation periods -- 1.4 to 13.4 days for the five big moons, less than a day for Uranus (which in the moons' cases would be tidally locked in synch with their orbital periods). So, by asking about Hubble and chevron, could Hubble be able to study what the flip sides of each moon look like, and whether the planet's appearance has altered with the new heating pattern?

It would be cool if NASA/Europe/other orgs were to plan and put an orbiter around the planet (perhaps named the Herschel). GBC (talk) 14:34, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The angular resolution of Hubble—0.04″ translates into the linear resolution of 500 km at the distance of Uranus. The latter number exceeds the diameter of Miranda. Therefore for Hubble Miranda is just a dot in the sky. I also doubt the any future mission to Uranus will be called Herschel, as there already exists Herschel_Space_Observatory. Ruslik_Zero 09:24, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Geological Activity

Are we even sure that Miranda is geologically active at the moment. Tailsfan2 (talk) 01:01, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good point - the activity is probably mostly or entirely in the past, since the orbit is no longer in a resonance. WolfmanSF (talk) 07:39, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on Miranda (moon). Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20080709020909/http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/miranda_creation_011016-1.html to http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/miranda_creation_011016-1.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 12:10, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

could be improved

This is an FA in French: when I am not quite so pressed for time I might translate it over. Double sharp (talk) 12:35, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've been meaning to get this article FA'd for ages. But the decline of the Solar System Wikiproject kinda left me in the lurch. If you would be interested in co-FA-ing with me, I'd be glad to start improvement. Serendi ^pod ous 13:37, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Serendipodous: I know this is over a year old, but I may be interested in getting back to this in the near future now that most of the work on my chemistry FA projects is done... ^_^ Double sharp (talk) 14:41, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds like a good plan. I'm certainly up for it. Serendi ^pod ous 14:57, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified (January 2018)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Miranda (moon). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20141015074202/http://m.teachastronomy.com/astropedia/article/Uranus-Miranda to http://m.teachastronomy.com/astropedia/article/Uranus-Miranda

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 19:55, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox image

The infobox image currently is a 3D model and not an actual image. This should be fixed. ArkHyena (talk) 01:14, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]