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Cordelia is a small moon that orbits the planet Uranus. It was discovered in 1986 and is notable for being one of the innermost moons in Uranus's system, helping scientists understand the structure and composition of planetary moon systems.
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Cordelia is the innermost known moon of Uranus. It was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on January 20, 1986, and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 7. It was not detected again until the Hubble Space Telescope observed it in 1997. Cordelia takes its name from the youngest daughter of Lear in William Shakespeare's King Lear. It is also designated Uranus VI.
Other than its orbit, size of 50 km × 36 km (31 mi × 22 mi), and geometric albedo of 0.06, little is known about it. In the Voyager 2 images, Cordelia appears as an elongated object with its major axis pointing towards Uranus. The ratio of axes of Cordelia's prolate spheroid is 0.7±0.2.