Sycorax
| Sycorax | |
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| Designation | |
| Name | Sycorax |
| Reference body | Uranus |
| Planetary mean orbits | |
| Epoch | 2006.64792344792 |
| Semimajor axis (a) | 12184437444.8172 m |
| Eccentricity (e) | 0.514037255392355 |
| Inclination (i) | 152.448392019417° (2.66072638010987 radian) |
| Longitude of the ascending node (LAN, ☊) | 256.597827401507° (4.47847694162043 radian) |
| Longitude of periapsis (ϖ) | 272.366581112343° (4.75369361281058 radian) |
| Mean longitude (L) | 496.585093844764° (8.66704490391616 radian) |
| Selected physical parameters | |
| Mean radius | 94890 m |
| Mass | 1.398×1017 kg |
| SidRotPeriod | 110887488 (3.5138 years) |
| SidRotOffset | 0 |
| Obliquity | 1.4346 |
| LAN | 2.9255 |
| Note | *Elements given are from Sycorax.cfg (outer_planets-060929-base.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[edit]
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
Sycorax from uranus.zip in Orbiter 2002 
Sycorax from UranusMoons.zip in Orbiter 2003P2 
Sycorax from outerplanets-050125.zip in Orbiter 2005P1 
Sycorax from outer_planets-060929-base.zip in Orbiter 2006P1 
Discovery image of Sycorax, the circled object upper right,
from Wikimedia Commons
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