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Thanks Red Badger.

Cranky Old 'Civ sez -- The tilt of Uranus isn't due to one of its moons -- the rest of the Uranian moons orbit in the planet's 'ecliptic', and there are captured minor moons, some of which are prograde and others retrograde (retrograde orbits are generally considered diagnostic of capture). Uranus' major moons and its rings are indeed beholden to the planet, not the other way around. The largest of its moons is 1/10000th the mass.

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