Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/October 24, 2024

Ravenpuff, since your tweak, this blurb is now at 1059 characters, which is considerably over the 1025 hard limit. Could you (or my fellow coords from @TFA coordinators with admin rights) please replace it with the following version, which comes in at 1023: - SchroCat (talk) 06:49, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@SchroCat: I've re-amended the draft blurb below to fix grammar (missing "in" before "a 1712 poem"), and trimmed one instance of the moon's name to bring it down to 1018 (by my count). I don't have admin rights so am happy for this version to replace the live one. Thanks — RAVENPVFF · talk · 10:58, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The "in" was in the original version and was missed (by me) in the corrections. I've tweaked to go with the US spelling of 'percent' which brings it down to exactly 1025, as " (Full article...)" is also included in the character count. - SchroCat (talk) 11:09, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wehwalt, Dank, are either of you able to make the change on this please? Thanks - SchroCat (talk) 16:52, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Umbriel is the third-largest moon of Uranus. It was discovered on October 24, 1851, by William Lassell. Named after a character in a 1712 poem by Alexander Pope, Umbriel is composed mainly of ice with a substantial fraction of rock. It may be differentiated into a rocky core and an icy mantle. Its surface, the darkest among Uranian moons, appears to have been shaped mostly by impacts, but the presence of canyons suggests early endogenic processes. This shows Umbriel may have undergone an early endogenically driven resurfacing event that erased its older surface. Covered by numerous impact craters reaching 210 km (130 mi) in diameter, Umbriel is the second-most heavily cratered satellite of Uranus after Oberon. Like all moons of Uranus, Umbriel likely formed from an accretion disk that surrounded the planet just after its formation. The only close study of Umbriel was conducted in January 1986 by Voyager 2, which captured images of about 40 percent of its surface during the spacecraft's flyby. (Full article...)