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Oberon

In folklore, king of the elves or fairies and, according to the 13th-century French romance Huon of Bordeaux, an illegitimate son of Julius Caesar. Shakespeare used the character in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Oberon's name was taken as the title of a masque by Ben Jonson in 1616, an epic by Christoph Wieland in 1780, and an opera by Weber in 1826.

Oberon

One of the five major moons of Uranus, discovered by German-born English astronomer William Herschel in 1789. It is 1,524 km/947 mi in diameter and orbits Uranus at an average distance of 584,000 km/363,000 mi with a period (time taken to circle the planet) of 13.5 days. Impact craters show fresh, light-coloured ice beneath its dark surface.



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