Sycorax
| Sycorax | |
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| Designation | |
| Name | Sycorax |
| Reference body | Uranus |
| Planetary mean orbits | |
| Epoch | 1979.999 |
| Semimajor axis (a) | 12179000000 m |
| Eccentricity (e) | 0.5224 |
| Inclination (i) | 159.4025882° (2.7821 radian) |
| Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊) | 260.856225° (4.5528 radian) |
| Longitude of periapsis (ϖ) | 280.7378605° (4.8998 radian) |
| Mean longitude (L) | 91.00861618° (1.5884 radian) |
| Selected physical parameters | |
| Mean radius | 94890 m |
| Mass | 1.398×1017 kg |
| SidRotPeriod | 110887488 (3.52 years) |
| SidRotOffset | 0 |
| Obliquity | 1.4346 |
| LAN | 2.9255 |
| Note | *Elements given are from Sycorax.cfg (uranus.zip) |
Sycorax (Uranus XVII, S/1997 U 2) is one of the outer retrograde irregular satellites of Uranus and the largest of the irregulars. It was discovered at the Hale Telescope on 6 September 1997. It is named after the mother of Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Sycorax in Orbiter
Sycorax 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 |
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| Uranus | AVSIM | Rolf Keibel | Scenery | 5 November 2002 | |||
Sycorax from uranus.zip in Orbiter 2002 
Discovery image of Sycorax, the circled object upper right,
from Wikimedia Commons
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Named Satellites: Ariel | Belinda | Bianca | Caliban | Cordelia | Cressida | Cupid | Desdemona | Ferdinand | Francisco | Juliet | Mab | Margaret | Miranda | Oberon | Ophelia | Perdita | Portia | Prospero | Puck | Rosalind | Setebos | Stephano | Sycorax | Titania | Trinculo | Umbriel Numbered Satellites:| S/2023 U1 |
| See also: Pronunciation key | rings of Uranus |
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