Sycorax
Moon· orbits Uranus
Sycorax is a moon orbiting Uranus.
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Key facts
Radius
60 km
3% of our Moon's radius
Orbit around Uranus
3.52 Earth years
1,285 Earth days
Science
Physical
- Radius
- 60 km · 3% of our Moon's radius
- JPL Horizons OBJ_DATA (reported mean radius)
Orbit around Uranus
- Distance from Uranus
- 12,185,031 km
- From JPL orbital elements
- Orbital period
- 3.52 years
- From JPL orbital elements
- Eccentricity
- 0.4637
- From JPL orbital elements
- Inclination to the J2000 equator
- 142.82 °
- From JPL orbital elements
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00262 S⊕ · 1/382 of the sunlight Earth receives
- Computed from the distance to the Sun (inverse-square; Earth's sunlight = 1), before any atmosphere.
Discovery & history
- By
- P.D. Nicholson, B.J. Gladman, J.A. Burns, J.J. Kavelaars
Sycorax was discovered in 1997 by P.D. Nicholson 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.