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
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 Clark, Lewis Gaylord
At that instant Umbriel, one of Mr. Lassell's satellites, was in the position 191°, and distant 21″ from Uranus, in the most favorable position for seeing it.
From Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works by Holden, Edward Singleton
Ariel must be brighter than Umbriel, because I have never seen the latter unless it was farther from the planet than the former at its maximum distance….
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various
Sixty years afterwards, Mr. Lassell, of England, discovered the remaining two satellites of Uranus, called Ariel and Umbriel.
From Famous Men of Science by Bolton, Sarah K.
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