Setebos (moon)

Imagine a tiny rock zooming around a giant planet! That's Setebos, one of Uranus's many moons. It's not a planet itself, but a moon that orbits Uranus. Setebos is super small, only about 48 kilometers (30 miles) across. That’s like the length of about 240 school buses lined up end-to-end! It's a bit like a lumpy potato in space, not perfectly round like our Moon.

Here's something really cool about Setebos: it orbits Uranus in the opposite direction of most other moons! Most moons go around their planet the same way a merry-go-round spins. But Setebos goes the other way, like spinning backward on the merry-go-round. This makes it a bit of a rebel in the Uranus family. It takes Setebos a long, long time to go around Uranus just once.

Did you know Setebos has a very special name? It's named after a powerful and magical character from a play called 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare. In the story, Setebos is a god that a character worships. Scientists who discover moons often pick names from myths, legends, and famous stories. It's like giving each moon its own unique identity!

Scientists think Setebos is made of mostly ice and rock. It's not a place you could ever visit because it's freezing cold and there's no air to breathe. It's much smaller than Earth, and it doesn't have any special features like mountains or oceans that we know of. It’s just a small, icy, rocky world doing its own thing around Uranus.