Caliban
| Caliban | |
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| Designation | |
| Name | Caliban |
| Reference body | Uranus |
| Planetary mean orbits | |
| Epoch | 1979.999 |
| Semimajor axis (a) | 7231000000 m |
| Eccentricity (e) | 0.1588 |
| Inclination (i) | 140.8788627° (2.4588 radian) |
| Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊) | 163.5393435° (2.8543 radian) |
| Longitude of periapsis (ϖ) | 146.195911° (2.5516 radian) |
| Mean longitude (L) | 309.294077° (5.3982 radian) |
| Selected physical parameters | |
| Mean radius | 48970 m |
| Mass | 4.769×1016 kg |
| SidRotPeriod | 50064480 (579.45 days) |
| SidRotOffset | 0 |
| Obliquity | 1.4346 |
| LAN | 2.9255 |
| Note | *Elements given are from Caliban.cfg (uranus.zip) |
Caliban (Uranus XVI, S/1997 U 1) is one of the outer satellites of Uranus. It orbits It was discovered by the Voyager2 spacecraft in January 1986. It is named after the sister of Katherine in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
Caliban in Orbiter
Caliban was first introduced into Orbiter with the add-on uranus.zip in November 2002.
| Add-on | Source | Version | Author | Type | Release Date | Compatibility | Wiki article |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uranus | AVSIM | Rolf Keibel | Scenery | 5 November 2002 | |||
Caliban from uranus.zip in Orbiter 2002 
Bianca as seen by Voyager 2 in January 1986,
from Wikimedia Commons
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