Sycorax
Moon· orbits Uranus
Sycorax is a moon orbiting Uranus.
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Key facts
Orbit around Uranus
3.52 Earth years
1,285 Earth days
Science
Orbit around Uranus
- Distance from Uranus
- 0.101 AU
- Orbital period
- 3.52 years
- Eccentricity
- 0.4637
- Inclination
- 142.82 °
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.00262 S⊕ · 1/382 of the sunlight Earth receives
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 official imagery available — this object has never been visited and no officially-licensed depiction exists.