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The Most Cruel Death of Cupid and Belinda 

A pair of star-cross'd lovers orbits Uranus, and when they rush to meet their fate, the duo could leave the cosmic stage littered with more bodies than the final scene of Hamlet. 
But the deaths of the moons Cupid and Belinda might not bring down the curtain on Uranus's satellites. Instead they could mark the beginning of a cycle between moons and rings that has been the central drama of the Uranian system for hundreds of thousands of years.
 
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Belinda is an inner satellite of the planet Uranus. Belinda was discovered from the images taken by Voyager 2 on 13 January 1986 and was given the temporary designation S/1986 U 5. It is named after the heroine of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. It is also designated Uranus XIV.
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