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 retrograde irregular satellites of Uranus. It was discovered at the Palomar Observatory on 6 September 1997. It is named after monster character in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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 
Caliban imaged by the Palomar Observatory in 1997,
from Wikimedia Commons
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