Sycorax

Sycorax

Sycorax An outer retrograde moon of Uranus, distance 12 179 000 km; also known as Uranus XVII. Sycorax orbits every 1288.3 days at an inclination of 159° to the planet's equator. It is about 120 km in diameter and was discovered in 1997 from ground‐based observations.

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Sycorax

Sycorax, in Shakespeare's The Tempest a witch, the mother of Caliban; she does not appear in the play.

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Sycorax

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

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