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Sycorax (moon)
Sycorax Discovery Discovered by
Philip D. Nicholson,
Brett J. Gladman,
Joseph A. Burns,
John J. Kavelaars
using the 200-inch Hale telescope Discovered in
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(sk´rks´´), in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus.
Caliban and Sycorax, Moons of Uranus
(Uranus XVI & Uranux XVII)
The moons Caliban (S/1997 U 1) and Sycorax (S/1997 U 2) were first detected on September 6 and 7, 1997 in images obtained by the Hale 5-meter telescope at Palomar Observatory.
Caliban and Sycorax
Uranus XVI and XVII
Two new moons of Uranus, provisionally known as Uranus XVI (S/1997 U 1) and Uranus XVII (S/1997 U 2), have been discovered.
Uranus's irregular moons range in size from about 150 km (Sycorax) to 18 km (Trinculo).[1] Unlike Jupiter's irregulars, Uranus's show no correlation axis versus inclination.
The next moons, Caliban, Stephano, Sycorax, Prospero, and Setebos were discovered in just the past few years by re-examining Voyager 2 images.
Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, plus others yet to receive names
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The following moons have just recently been discovered. We still do not have any pictures, or information about them: Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, and 1986U10 ...
Brett Gladman is best known as discoverer or co-discover of several astronomical bodies in the solar system, including the moons of Uranus Caliban and Sycorax.
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The moons Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, and 1986U10 were all discovered fairly recently.
Two new small moons, Caliban and Sycorax, were discovered by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in 1997; they were found to have irregular (extremely elliptical or highly inclined) orbits.
 See also: Caliban, Uranus, Solar System, Orbit, Satellite
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