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Ophelia 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

Ophelia, in Shakespeare's Hamlet, the daughter of Polonius.

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Ophelia (Uranus VII) One of the lesser satellites of Uranus, with a diameter of 16 km. It was discovered in 1986.

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