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Umbriel
(Um|briel)
Pronunciation:
/ˈʌmbrɪəl/
Astronomy
a satellite of Uranus, the thirteenth closest to the planet, discovered in 1851 (diameter 1,190 km).
Origin:
named after a sprite in
The Rape of the Lock
by Alexander Pope
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