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Caliban in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus .

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Caliban, in Shakespeare's The Tempest, is described in the folio ‘Names of the Actors’ as ‘a savage and deformed slave’.

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Caliban A retrograde satellite of Uranus, sixteenth in order from the planet at a distance of 7 231 000 km; also known as Uranus XVI. It orbits every 579.7 days at an inclination of over 140° to Uranus' equator. Caliban has a diameter of about 60 km and was discovered in 1997.

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