Caliban
Moon· orbits Uranus
Caliban is a moon orbiting Uranus.
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Key facts
Radius
30 km
2% of our Moon's radius
Orbit around Uranus
579 Earth days
1.59 Earth years
Science
Physical
- Radius
- 30 km · 2% of our Moon's radius
- JPL Horizons OBJ_DATA (reported mean radius)
Orbit around Uranus
- Distance from Uranus
- 7,163,398 km
- From JPL orbital elements
- Orbital period
- 579.2 days
- From JPL orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 0.07915
- From JPL orbital elements
- Inclination to the J2000 equator
- 116.12 °
- From JPL orbital elements
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00266 S⊕ · 1/377 of the sunlight Earth receives
- Computed from the distance to the Sun (inverse-square; Earth's sunlight = 1), before any atmosphere.
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 resolved image of this moon has been released: telescopes and passing spacecraft have recorded it only as a faint point of light.