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  Sea and Sky's Tour of the Solar System: Other Uranian Moons
It is the second of two moons that orbit inside the synchronous orbit radius of Uranus.
Caliban was discovered in 1997 by Brett Gladman, Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200-inch Hale Telescope.
Sycorax is the seventeenth and outermost of Uranus' known moons.
www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3h7.html   (920 words)

  
 Caliban and Sycorax, Moons of Uranus
The moons Caliban (S/1997 U 1) and Sycorax (S/1997 U 2) were first detected on September 6 and 7, 1997 in images obtained by the Hale 5-meter telescope at Palomar Observatory.
Caliban and Sycorax are the first moons around Uranus to be called irregular satellites, due to their retrograde and highly inclined orbits.
The circular orbits of the outermost two previously known moons (Titania and Oberon) surround the planet, and appear as ellipses because the orbits viewed from Earth are somewhat edge on.
www.solarviews.com /eng/caliban.htm   (764 words)

  
 Norman N. Holland, Caliban's Dream
There may be, in Caliban's phrasing, `The clouds methought would open', the faintest sign of a differentiation of self from object that matches the significance of the clouds as dream [115] screen and breast.
Caliban in his own way, then, acts out a basic motif for Shakespeare himself, as does this whole play (which is often thought of as Shakespeare's own freeing himself --- retiring from the stage).
Caliban is the core of the play --- he is the natural man against whom the cultivated man is measured.
www.clas.ufl.edu /users/nnh/calibans.htm   (3046 words)

  
 Blood Loyalties: Caliban's Cheat Sheet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Caliban is the leader of the Shantallow and effective leader of the Weir, though his control of the seven tribes has faded since the end of the Black Road War.
Caliban's grandmother and one of the oldest living members of the Shantallow, and the oldest in the pack.
She, too, is one of Caliban's close advisors, though he feels she often councils him too much to return to the old ways and abandon the Amber part of him.
www.cs.umd.edu /~snover/bloodsite/misc/caliban_cheat.html   (4967 words)

  
 Uranus' New Moons
Caliban is a character from Shakespeare's play The Tempest; a savage and deformed slave of the magician Prospero, and is the son of the witch Sycorax who imprisoned the fairy Ariel for disobedience.
Caliban was discovered by Brett Gladman, Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200 inch Hale Telescope; the first images were taken 1997 Sept 6 and 7.
The composition of the two moons, according Nicholson, "is probably a plum-pudding mixture of rocks and ice." Both moons are unusually red in color which may suggest a historical link with the Kuiper Belt.
www.seds.org /nineplanets/nineplanets/uranew.html   (834 words)

  
 The Harry Potter Galleries: HOL - The HOL Solar System
Hyperion [hi-PEER-ee-en] is one of the smaller moons of Saturn.
The moon's rotational period is not constant and varies from one orbit to the next.
The moon is extremely elongated about 145 by 85 by 62 kilometers (90 by 53 by 39 miles) in diameter.
hol.50g.com /solar/moons.htm   (2724 words)

  
 Blood Loyalties - PROLOGUE - Droplets of Blood - Caliban
Caliban stifled his urges to be more affectionate; it wouldn't do for the boy to be coddled, especially in front of his peers.
Caliban continues to shift shadow towards Amber, slipping between worlds until he is deep within the forest of Arden and the shadows begin to stiffen.
Caliban's repect for the rangers is clear; of all of Amber's forces, the rangers are one of the strongest and the one closest to Caliban's people.
www.cs.umd.edu /~snover/bloodsite/threads/caliban-prologue.html   (14042 words)

  
 The Moons of the Solar System — Caliban   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Caliban is the brutish and grotesque slave in Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
Caliban's orbital parameters may be subject to change since it revolves in such a great distance from Uranus that its motion is easily disturbed by such factors like the gravity of the Sun.
An interesting feature of Caliban is that strangely enough for a so called irregular moon it is in a nearly circular orbit (compared to the other four newly discovered irregular moons of Uranus!).
republika.pl /ksiezyce/uranus/caliban_en.html   (410 words)

  
 Caliban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caliban (band), a post-modern, destructive metalcore band from Germany
Caliban, the homeworld of the Dark Angels in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe.
Caliban, or Caliburn was also the name of the sword of Julius Caesar, reputed to have survived into the fifth and sixth centuries, and a considered basis for the mythical sword Excalibur
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caliban   (213 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Caliban
Caliban [1] is a post-modern, destructive metal-core band.
Caliban is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Universe who was a member of the Morlocks and X-Force.
Caliban is a no-law robot in Roger MacBride Allen's trilogy, Caliban-Inferno-Utopia.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Caliban   (235 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Robert Browning's Poetry: "Caliban Upon Setibos"
Caliban, the enslaved, monstrous native of the island on which the play takes place, is here given a chance to speak his mind.
Caliban lies at the mercy of a figure who is mysterious and capricious, yet at times Caliban himself is able to act is a similar manner towards lesser creatures, like the crabs whom he either feeds or kills, at will.
Caliban's soliloquy abounds with concrete examples from the natural world, one of the most dramatic of which is the anecdote of the freshwater fish who tries to survive in the ocean (lines 33-43).
www.sparknotes.com /poetry/browning/section12.rhtml   (1883 words)

  
 Space Today Online - Moons of the Solar System
The Moon is one of the larger natural satellites with a diameter of 2,160 miles.
The moons are 120,000 miles and 131,000 miles from the center of planet Saturn between the moons Mimas and Enceladus.
The smallest moon is Deimos, at Mars, only seven miles in diameter, although its size now is rivaled by the small shepherd moons discovered by Cassini at Saturn and by others yet to be counted and named in the rings around Jupiter, Saturn and other giant gas planets in the outer Solar System.
www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Moons/MoonsSolSys.html   (1335 words)

  
 "Caliban upon Setebos; or Natural Theology in the Island"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Another fairly obvious key to the poem is the epigraph, which suggests the limits of Caliban's attempts to discover the nature of God by extrapolating from his own knowledge and behavior.
Setebos, according to Caliban, made the moon and the sun because he was ill at ease, because he could not change his cold.
Caliban goes on to talk of his own discontent, and how he might make a clay Caliban with wings, and had he the power to grant him life, would laugh at his troubles, plague him on purpose, or be overgenerous, for sport.
www.victorianweb.org /authors/rb/caliban.html   (428 words)

  
 CliffsNotes::The Tempest:Book Summary and Study Guide
Caliban serves to illustrate ideas about the social hierarchy of the Renaissance world, which formulated a socially rigid—and very political—hierarchy of God, king, man, woman, beast.
Although he has far fewer lines than several other characters, Caliban, at only 100 lines, is often the focus of student interest, as well as that of many critics, often with an importance far greater than his actual presence in the play.
Whether Caliban is a monster, whether he is a victim of colonialism, or whether he represents some other disadvantaged element of society depends almost entirely on the social and cultural constructs and interests of the reader or audience.
www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-130,pageNum-52.html   (565 words)

  
 Caliban (moon of Uranus)
The 20th moon of Uranus in order from the planet.
Caliban was discovered, together with Sycorax, on Sep. 6, 1997 by Brett J. Gladman, Philip D. Nicholson, Joseph A. Burns, and John J. Kavelaars using the 5-meter Hale Telescope and given the temporary designation S/1997 U1.
Caliban is an irregular moon with a highly inclined, retrograde orbit.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/Caliban.html   (165 words)

  
 Big rock - 17 March 2001 - New Scientist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Caliban and Sycorax are among the latest characters honoured.
Moon does have a name, Luna, which is the name the Romans gave to their goddess of the Moon.
Because Luna is the only Moon which is visible with the naked eye, it can also be referred to as "the Moon", since it is clear which one is being talked about.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=lw737   (602 words)

  
 Uranus - Moons
In 1997, two moons [Uranus XVI (Caliban) and XVII (Sycorax)] were discovered using the 200-inch Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California, USA.
Uranus and its five major moons are depicted in this montage of images acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its January 1986 flyby of the planet.
Ten new moons of Uranus were discovered by Voyager in 1985 and 1986.
www.nasm.si.edu /ceps/etp/uranus/uran_moons.html   (565 words)

  
 Tempest essays - Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Shakespeare’s Caliban
Caliban is a symbol, different from most any other in drama, because his rebellious nature fits into our lives and his ability to learn and to come to grips with his place in these situations.
The reason why Caliban is always represented as a beast is because we as an audience have an easier time understanding Caliban's growth from creature to kin then we do as from man to man. Caliban has to represent everyone, someone we can identify with easily.
Caliban is a character that everyone identifies with by the ending of The Tempest because his journey is our journey.
www.123helpme.com /view.asp?id=20905   (2752 words)

  
 Uranus' Moons
Most of the moons appear to be captured asteroids due to their size and orbits.
It is the smallest of Uranus' moons that is visible from the Earth.
The next moons, Caliban, Stephano, Sycorax, Prospero, and Setebos were discovered in just the past few years by re-examining Voyager 2 images.
filer.case.edu /~sjr16/uranus_moons.html   (479 words)

  
 Roadrunner Records Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The German metalcore horde are set to release their fifth album at the end of February.
When Caliban played at the tiger claw club last Saturday, all hell was loose and there was tasty beer.
CALIBAN supported MACHINE HEAD for the duration of their last European headlining tour, which took place in late 2004.
www.roadrunnerrecords.com.au /artists/Caliban   (818 words)

  
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Date: Wednesday, 6 May 1998 16:56:46 +0100 (BST) Subject: Etymology of Caliban As Caliban and Sycorax have now been placed amongst the stars I would offer a derivation for 'Caliban'.
The latter is also a root for 'Libanah' the Moon.
Caliban's counterpart Ariel is generally considered to derive from the Hebrew for 'Lion' (embodying in one word the alchemical symbolism of 'the Lion's whelp embraced by a piece of tender air' in Cymbeline.) Caliban's mother 'Sycorax' has been seen as a compound of the Greek words 'sys' and 'corax' meaning 'sow' and 'raven'.
www.tnellen.com /cybereng/ebooks/caliban.html   (227 words)

  
 CD Baby: THE CALIBAN QUARTET OF BASSOONISTS: Caliban Does Christmas
The Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists has been praised by critics around the world for its brilliant playing, inventive programming, and sunny good humour.
Their new CD "Caliban Does Christmas" includes everything from comedy to swing to gorgeous ballads and classics.
He joins Caliban for the sweet and gentle "The Secret of Christmas" and his own "Secret Santa", written especially for this CD.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/calibanquartet3   (712 words)

  
 Moon Facts (reference)
When the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth, its sunlit side is turned away from the Earth and we say there is no Moon.
When the Earth is between the Sun and Moon, we can see the entire sunlit side of the Moon and call it a full Moon.
The names of these moons are the names of characters from plays by Shakespeare.
www.teachervision.fen.com /astronomy/moon/1481.html?detoured=1   (397 words)

  
 Moon Phases -- Moon or Moons
Use your pencil to write the number of moons to the left of each planet name.
Make a red circle around the names of the two planets with no moons.
Make a green circle around the name of the planet with the most number of moons.
www4.nau.edu /ifwfd/ts_lessons/moon/moon/MP_3dig.htm   (125 words)

  
 Caliban - OneLook Dictionary Search
Caliban : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
Caliban : E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
Phrases that include Caliban: isaac asimovs caliban, the toys of caliban, toys of caliban
www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=Caliban   (160 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The TEMPEST: Books: William Shakespeare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Upon learning that his usurping brother Antonio is sailing near the island with the Neopolitan King Alonso's party, he uses his magic powers to conjure a sea storm that not only leaves the ship and its passengers wrecked on the island, but which also sparks a courtship between his daughter and the king's son, Ferdinand.
In one, Caliban befriends two drunken crew members, whom he believes to have come from the moon, and drunkenly attempts to raise is own rebellion against Prospero.
Prospero tried to be nice to Caliban, but Caliban crossed the line by trying to rape his daughter Miranda.
www.amazon.com /TEMPEST-William-Shakespeare/dp/0671722905   (2503 words)

  
 EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Lycanthrope aflicted by lycanthrope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Before the next full moon, is aflicted again with lycanthrope but this time by a wererat.
During the full moon, would this character be that of a wolf, rat or something else?
I hear what you say, and although the words are there, I think I will truely understand you, when I hear you scream those words.
www.enworld.org /showthread.php?t=33994   (294 words)

  
 RPO -- Robert Browning : Caliban upon Setebos
This is the theory which the text chosen as motto condemns, and which Caliban's musings illustrate.
It is also noteworthy that Browning includes in Caliban's theology not merely most of the doctrines of primitive religions, but also some elements associated with branches of Christianity, particularly the narrower kind of Calvinist sect.
Caliban throughout speaks of himself in the third person, usually without the pronoun.
rpo.library.utoronto.ca /poem/267.html   (2406 words)

  
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All God's children need an arranger and producer and engineer like those!...
Caliban Does Christmas, and the bar has been raised."
www.caliban.ca /cds/index.html   (240 words)

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