Which planet has moons named after Shakespeare characters?
Uranus: “In 1787, a few years after discovering Uranus, William Herschel discovered two large moons orbiting the planet. Probably annoyed about having to allow the name to be changed of the planet that he had previously discovered, he decided this time to honour the greatest playwright in English history by naming the two moons after characters in one of his plays. The moons were named Titania and Oberon after the King and Queen of the Fairies in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Again, some people (such as the German ambassador) kicked up a fuss, wanting the moons to be named after classical figures, but the names chosen by Herschel remained and the tradition of naming moons of Uranus after literary characters began. In 1851, William Lassell discovered two more large moons orbiting Uranus. These were named Ariel and Umbriel. Ariel and Umbriel are characters in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, names chosen by Willian Herschel’s son, John. These are the only two moons orbit
