Andrew P. Ingersoll
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LOCATION: Pasadena, CA, United States
Professor of Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Member of the Voyager Imaging Team. Coauthor of The New Solar System.
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Miranda, innermost and smallest of the five major moons of Uranus and the most topographically varied of the group. It was discovered in telescopic photographs of the Uranian system in 1948 by the Dutch American astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper, who named it after a character in William Shakespeare’s…
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