Juliet of Verona and Juliet the Moon - Chicago, IL
Posted by: Metro2
N 41° 53.476 W 087° 36.397
16T E 449675 N 4637881
Shakespeare's Juliet, daughter to Capulet and Juliet...one of the Moons of Uranus.
Waymark Code: WMCHPC
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2011
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Juliet, from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...the pair of tragic teenage lovers from rival families.
This statue is a gift from the people of Verona, Italy (where the play takes place) to the people of Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture is located outside the Chicago Shakepseare Theater.
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Unfortunately the artist and date are not indicated at the site.
The brief Wikipedia article (
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Juliet belongs to Portia Group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Rosalind, Cupid, Belinda and Perdita.[6] These satellites have similar orbits and photometric properties.[6] Unfortunately, other than its orbit,[1] radius of 53 km[2] and geometric albedo of 0.08[6] virtually nothing is known about Juliet.
At the Voyager 2 images Juliet appears as an elongated object, the major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Juliet's prolate spheroid is 0.5 ± 0.3, which is rather an extreme value.[2] Its surface is grey in color."