Puck

MOONMoon of Uranus

ILLUSTRATION · NO MEASURED PROPERTIES · SHADING, NOT THE PHASE

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OVERVIEW

] MOON

Puck is a moon of Uranus. It orbits Uranus at a mean distance of 86 004 . It was discovered in 1985.

WHAT IT IS
Moon of Uranus
HOW FAR
86 004

Its average distance from Uranus, not from Earth.

ONE ORBIT TAKES
18.3

One trip round Uranus.

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CATALOG DATA

] 24 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

THE ORBIT

The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.

Orbits
Uranus
Orbital period
0.761833
Eccentricity
Inclination
0.3
Longitude of ascending node
216.1
Argument of periapsis
0
Mean anomaly
50.1
Element epoch
2451545.0000
Elements referred to
the planet's equator
Reference plane pole (right ascension)
77.3
Reference plane pole (declination)
15.2
Apsidal precession period
2.226
Nodal precession period
4.454
Mean anomaly fitted to the ephemeris
54.51
Mean anomaly rate
473.208
Apsidal precession rate
−0.442779
Nodal precession rate
−0.22129
Agreement with the ephemeris
1.62

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

Discovered by
Voyager Science Team

OTHER NAMES AND NUMBERS

The identifiers other catalogues file this object under, for anyone joining this data to theirs.

Also known as
Uranus XV
JPL satellite code
715
Wikidata item
Q15662
Wikipedia article
Puck (moon)

WHERE THESE FIGURES CAME FROM

Which catalogue, paper or model each of the fields above was read from, where the source named one.

Ephemeris
URA182
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 1 DESIGNATIONS
  • Common name Puck
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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. Puck [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/puck
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_puck,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{Puck}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/puck},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Planetary Satellite Data.}
}

The values above were taken from JPL Planetary Satellite Data — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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