Umbriel
Americannoun
noun
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Only Umbriel, 740 miles in diameter and covered with overlapping meteorite craters but with few other features, seems to have been largely unaffected by Uranian gravity--for reasons scientists cannot explain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sixty years afterwards, Mr. Lassell, of England, discovered the remaining two satellites of Uranus, called Ariel and Umbriel.
From Famous Men of Science by Sarah K. Bolton
Uranus is attended by four moons or satellites, named Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon, the last being the most remote from the planet.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
In fine, they each seemed saturate with the spirit of the Gnome king, Umbriel, in the drama, when he ——‘stalked abroad Urging the wolf to tear the buffalo.’
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
From their relative aspects in these respective positions I judge Umbriel to be about half as bright as Titania.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
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