<P> Uranus is the seventh planet of the Solar System; it has 27 known moons, all of which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope . Uranus's moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons, five major moons, and nine irregular moons . The inner moons are small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with Uranus's rings . The five major moons are massive enough to have reached hydrostatic equilibrium, and four of them show signs of internally driven processes such as canyon formation and volcanism on their surfaces . The largest of these five, Titania, is 1,578 km in diameter and the eighth - largest moon in the Solar System, and about one - twentieth the mass the Earth's Moon . The orbits of the regular moons are nearly coplanar with Uranus's equator, which is tilted 97.77 ° to its orbit . Uranus's irregular moons have elliptical and strongly inclined (mostly retrograde) orbits at large distances from the planet . </P> <P> William Herschel discovered the first two moons, Titania and Oberon, in 1787, and the other three ellipsoidal moons were discovered in 1851 by William Lassell (Ariel and Umbriel) and in 1948 by Gerard Kuiper (Miranda). These five have planetary mass, and so would be considered (dwarf) planets if they were in direct orbit about the Sun . The remaining moons were discovered after 1985, either during the Voyager 2 flyby mission or with the aid of advanced Earth - based telescopes . </P>

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