Caliban
Moon· orbits Uranus
Caliban is a moon orbiting Uranus.
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Key facts
Orbit around Uranus
579 Earth days
1.59 Earth years
Science
Orbit around Uranus
- Distance from Uranus
- 6,938,824 km
- Orbital period
- 579.2 days
- Eccentricity
- 0.07915
- Inclination
- 116.12 °
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00265 S⊕ · 1/377 of the sunlight Earth receives
Discovery & history
- By
- B.J. Gladman, P.D. Nicholson, J.A. Burns, J.J. Kavelaars
Caliban was discovered in 1997 by B.J. Gladman and colleagues. Uranus's moons are named after characters from the plays of Shakespeare and the poetry of Alexander Pope. Beyond its discovery and naming, little more about it has been individually recorded.
Images
No official imagery available — this object has never been visited and no officially-licensed depiction exists.