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Desdemona in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus .

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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Desdemona, the heroine of Shakespeare's Othello.

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Desdemona (Uranus X) One of the lesser satellites of Uranus, with a diameter of 29 km. It was discovered in 1986.

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