Caliban
| Caliban | |
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| Designation | |
| Name | Caliban |
| Reference body | Uranus |
| Planetary mean orbits | |
| Epoch | 2006.64779710751 |
| Semimajor axis (a) | 7164832002.11976 m |
| Eccentricity (e) | 0.0791031311374361 |
| Inclination (i) | 139.926744025183° (2.44218239483474 radian) |
| Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊) | 175.193325006969° (3.05770034888812 radian) |
| Longitude of periapsis (ϖ) | 514.383572506825° (8.97768695841507 radian) |
| Mean longitude (L) | 608.55004605008° (10.621201966737 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 (outer_planets-060929-base.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[edit]
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Outer Planets 060929 Base | AVSIM | Rolf Keibel Carl Romanik Tony Dunn |
Scenery | 30 September 2006 | Orbiter 2006-P1 | ||
| The Outer Planets 050125 | AVSIM | 050125 | Rolf Keibel Tony Dunn |
Scenery | 26 January 2005 | Orbiter 2005-P1 | |
| Uranus Minor Moons | O-F Resources | 2004-12-14 | Nighthawke | Scenery | 14 December 2004 | ||
| Uranus | AVSIM | Rolf Keibel | Scenery | 5 November 2002 | |||
Caliban from uranus.zip in Orbiter 2002 
Caliban from UranusMoons.zip in Orbiter 2003P2 
Caliban from outerplanets-050125.zip in Orbiter 2005P1 
Caliban from outer_planets-060929-base.zip in Orbiter 2006P1 
Caliban imaged by the Palomar Observatory in 1997,
from Wikimedia Commons
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