[10] However, in 2003, pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope managed to pick up an object where Perdita was supposed to be, finally confirming its existence.

[9] It was named Perdita (Latin for 'lost') after the daughter of Leontes and Hermione in William Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale.

The above-mentioned Hubble measurements prove that Perdita does not follow a direct Keplerian motion around Uranus.

[4][8] Perdita belongs to the Portia group of satellites, which also includes Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, Juliet, Cupid, Rosalind, and Belinda.

[14] Little is known about Perdita apart from its orbit,[4][8] radius of 13.3 km,[5] and geometric albedo of 0.08.