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  Sycorax
Sycorax is a witch living on an island in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Sycorax's composition is probably a mixture of rock and ice, and its unusually red color suggests a historical link with the Kuiper belt; Sycorax is probably a captured Kuiper Belt object.
Sycorax was discovered on September 6 - September 7, 1997 by Brett Gladman, Phil Nicholson[?], Joseph Burns[?], and JJ Kavelaars[?] using the 200-inch Hale telescope[?]; they also discovered the moon Caliban at the same time.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/sy/Sycorax.html   (146 words)

  
 Sycorax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prospero refers to her as a foul witch from Algiers who was banished to the island on the accusation of practicing sorcery.
Sycorax, who "with age and envy / Was grown into a hoop", taught Caliban to worship the god Setebos but died before the arrival of Prospero and his daughter, Miranda.
Sycorax (moon), a moon of Uranus, named after the fictional character.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sycorax   (227 words)

  
 Caliban and Sycorax, Moons of Uranus
He was a deformed son of the witch Sycorax who imprisoned the fairy Ariel (a moon of Uranus) for disobedience.
Sycorax is about 120 kilometers in diameter and orbits at about 12.2 million kilometers from Uranus.
Caliban and Sycorax are the first moons around Uranus to be called irregular satellites, due to their retrograde and highly inclined orbits.
www.solarviews.com /eng/caliban.htm   (764 words)

  
 Sycorax (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sycorax was discovered on 1997-09-06 by Brett J. Gladman, Philip D. Nicholson, Joseph A. Burns, and John J. Kavelaars using the 200-inch Hale telescope, together with Caliban and given the temporary designation S/1997 U 2.
The diagram illustrates the orbital parameters of the retrograde irregular satellites of Uranus (in polar co-ordinates) with the eccentricity of the orbits represented by the segments extending from the pericentre to the apocentre.
The diameter of Sycorax is estimated at 150 km (assuming albedo of 0.04)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sycorax_(moon)   (405 words)

  
 Voyager Virtual Season Project
Sycorax pulled herself as upright as she could manage and fixed the captain with an equally baleful glare.
Sycorax watched through narrowed eyes as the human captain and the Abomination entered the holographic prison they held her in.
Sycorax played it exactly according to plan." Harry grinned at the captain as she came out from behind her desk and clapped both him and the holographic Sernaix on the shoulder.
vv8.jetc.org /vvs9/800_9-19.html   (11121 words)

  
 Uranus Moons Named Caliban and Sycorax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Both Caliban and Sycorax, the astronomers write, are unusually red in color, which suggests a link with the recently discovered populations of comet-like bodies called trans-Neptunian objects, which orbit the sun beyond the orbit of Neptune, and Centaurs, which cross the orbits of the outer planets.
Nicholson estimates that Caliban, the smaller of the two moons, has a diameter of 60 kilometers (37 miles) and is orbiting Uranus at an average distance of about 7.2 million kilometers (4.5 million miles), taking 1.6 years to complete one revolution.
Sycorax, he estimates, has a diameter of 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) and takes 3.5 years to complete one orbit of Uranus at a mean distance of about 12.2 million kilometers (7.5 million miles) from the planet.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1998-05/CUNS-UMNC-010598.php   (636 words)

  
 Sea and Sky's Tour of the Solar System: Other Uranian Moons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sycorax is the seventeenth and outermost of Uranus' known moons.
The name Sycorax was chosen by the discoverers and will most likely be accepted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Sycorax was discovered in 1997 by Brett Gladman, Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200-inch Hale Telescope.
www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3h7.html   (920 words)

  
 The Christmas Invasion
The Sycorax leader, assuming that Rose is in charge of the blue box, demands that she speak, and despite Mickey’s and Harriet’s protests, Rose steps up to try to fill the Doctor’s shoes.
She demands that the Sycorax leave the Earth in peace, citing the authority of every alien race she can think of -- but it’s clear that she’s bluffing, and the Sycorax leader bursts out laughing and threatens to kill her and take this planet by force.
While trying to bluff the Sycorax into leaving the Earth, Rose quotes Article 15 of the Shadow Proclamations, and cites the authority of the Slitheen Parliament of Raxacoricofallapatorius and The Gelth Confederacy as sanctioned by the Mighty Jagrafess and the Daleks.
www.drwhoguide.com /who_tv11.htm   (3823 words)

  
 The Christmas Invasion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The aliens are the Sycorax, and they are claiming the planet as their own, demanding surrender or "they" will die.
The Sycorax found the sample of A+ blood that was sent with various other materials on Guinevere One to identify the human race in case of alien contact, and are somehow using that as a control mechanism.
The Sycorax, with their "curse"-like blood control technology and bone-motif costumes bear a passing resemblance to Faction Paradox, a time-travelling voodoo cult created by Lawrence Miles that were recurring villains in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/The_Christmas_Invasion   (4762 words)

  
 Uranus' New Moons
Sycorax (S/1997 U 2) orbits about 12.2 million km from Uranus and is about 160 km in diameter.
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.
www.nineplanets.org /uranew.html   (834 words)

  
 Astronomers pick Shakespearean names for moons
Both Caliban and Sycorax, the astronomers wrote, are unusually red in color, which suggests a link with the recently discovered populations of comet-like bodies called trans-Neptunian objects, which orbit the sun beyond the orbit of Neptune, and Centaurs, which cross the orbits of the outer planets.
Both trans-Neptunians and Centaurs, said the researchers, have a wide range of reddish colors, perhaps resulting from the bombardment of their organic-rich, icy surfaces.
However, he said, Sycorax has a much more elliptical orbit than Caliban, bringing it as close as 6 million kilometers (3.7 million miles) to the planet.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/98/5.7.98/Uranus.html   (689 words)

  
 Outpost Gallifrey: Episode Guide
The aliens make their intentions known: they are the Sycorax, and they have come to Earth to take it over and enslave its people.
The Sycorax leader (Sean Gilder) teleports up Harriet, Alex, Major Blake and Llewellyn, where he kills the latter two and demands that Harriet Jones surrender in the name of the people of the Earth.
As Rose attempts to parlay with the Sycorax leader -- an attempt that is rejected as being 'funny' -- they once again call for the surrender of the Earth...
www.gallifreyone.com /episode.php?id=2005-14   (1224 words)

  
 SYCORAX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Travelling in a huge mountain of a spacecraft, the Sycorax were drawn to planet Earth by the Doctor's regenerative energy and/or the British space probe Guinevere One.
After attempting to neutralise the Doctor and his friends via an advance guard of killer Santas, they contacted Earth's authorities demanding mankind's surrender, holding a third of the world's population in their thrall to add weight to their threat.
The Sycorax exhibited a strange mix of the ancient and futuristic.
www.btinternet.com /~jp1885/who/sycorax.html   (178 words)

  
 The Christmas Invasion
With millions of people on the brink of jumping to their deaths, the Sycorax leader then states his demands: either one half will be sold into slavery, or a third of humanity will die.
The arrival of the huge, rock-like Sycorax spaceship in the sky above London is heralded by a sonic wave, which blasts out every window across the capitol; Rose becomes panic-stricken, and urges her mother and Mickey to help her hide with the Doctor in the safety of the TARDIS.
As humanity’s spokesperson, the Prime Minister is teleported aboard the aliens’ ship to meet with the Sycorax leader, along with Llewellyn, Major Blake of U.N.I.T. and her aide, Alex; standing before hundreds of Sycorax crewmembers, Llewellyn attempts to reason with the aliens’ leader, but he and the Major are promptly killed.
www.clivebanks.co.uk /Christmasinvasion.htm   (1342 words)

  
 [43.01] Photometric and spectroscopic observations of the Uranian satellite Sycorax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
On the basis of these data, Sycorax appears to be nearly as red as the reddest objects of the Kuiper Belt.
As Sycorax is a faint object (V magnitude of about 20), it is very difficult to observe, and large telescopes are required.
To date, we performed infrared photometry (in H and K bands) and J band spectroscopy at the VLT (ESO, Chile) with the ISAAC spectrometer.
www.aas.org /publications/baas/v32n3/dps2000/124.htm   (350 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/sycoraxelp
Sycorax has been together for what will be 2 years in Oct. 2nd.
The name Sycorax comes from the name of the wicked witch from the Shakespeare novel, "The Tempest".
After a long day of eating junk food and foods that makes u fart, what is better than to sit down and enjoy some melodies from your friendly neighborhood band Sycorax.
www.myspace.com /sycoraxelp   (904 words)

  
 Ninth & Beyond | The Christmas Invasion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
An excited Daniel Llewellyn eagerly awaits the first images from his probe, but they turn out to be a threatening message from the Sycorax.
All those with an A+ blood type are put under control and are marched to the edge of the nearest tall buildings.
I couldn’t help feeling annoyed that Harriet decided to destroy the Sycorax’s ship as it wasn’t a nice touch after saying things about the US president.
www.drwho2005.net /christmasinvasion.html   (350 words)

  
 Sycorax - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sycorax, in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Sycorax" at HighBeam.
More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-sycorax-ast.html   (165 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/sycoraxclothing
The TV is so bad at present, we need Cyber TV from Uranus....
Sycorax is a dark moon of Uranus lol.
Also it means Sycorax is an alien race from the Doctor Who episode The Christmas Invasion lol
www.myspace.com /sycoraxclothing   (780 words)

  
 Sycorax - ZeBOX Artist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sycorax One Godamus Rhyme - Two Words
Copyright notice: All songs and material on this page copyrighted by Sycorax and protected by copyright law and by international treaties.
If you intend to use it in any other way, please contact the artist(s).
zebox.com /sycorax/music   (62 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Sycorax (Doctor Who Files): Books: Jacqueline Rayner,Stephen Cole (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Find out all about the Sycorax, their history and home planet, technology and travels, then join them on a brand new adventure in "The Final Darkness."
All in all, the Doctor Who files are not to be reccomended, although some may enjoy them.
This one is saved by the fact that we know barely anything about the Sycorax, and it tells us quite a lot about its subject.
www.amazon.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /exec/obidos/ASIN/1405902485   (558 words)

  
 NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Uranus: Moons: Sycorax
NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Uranus: Moons: Sycorax
SSE Home > Planets > Uranus > Moons > Sycorax
Sycorax [SIGH-kor-aks] is the seventeenth known satellite of Uranus.
solarsystem.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Ura_Sycorax   (27 words)

  
 TSUBO Mens Shoes Sycorax Cream Grey by TSUBO Shoes from Frontier Shoe (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
TSUBO Mens Shoes Sycorax Cream Grey by TSUBO Shoes from Frontier Shoe (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)
Sycorax is a lace-up striped shoe hip, stylish and comfortable.
Sole: Hollowed out rubber sole to give cushioning, lightweight and flexbility.Rubber bubbles for shock absorption and skid resistance.These “cushion oval bubbles” are designed on the sole for various pressure points of the foot — Tsubo's signature mark.
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 sycorax one - free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
sycorax one - free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
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a phocus song (muneshine and sycorax) off of factors compilation *factor 3*
www.soundclick.com /bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=97905   (162 words)

  
 sycorax's Profile – Users at Last.fm
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Want to know how similar your music taste is to sycorax’s?
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 Message Board of sycorax one - SoundClick
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I keep hearing "Burn Bush" on Beatbasement.com and love it, I was just Googling to hit you up - I'll check your stuff here in a minute.
Sup Sycorax, I peeped "HOLDING BACK" lyrics are banging, and I can definitely relate.
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 Hexapedia - Sycorax (moon) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Its orbital radius is approximately 12.2 million km from Uranus and is about 190 km in diameter, but this size estimate is based on the moon's apparent brightness and the assumption that it has an albedo of about 0.07.
Sycorax was discovered on September 6 - September 7, 1997 by Brett J. Gladman, Philip D. Nicholson, Joseph A. Burns, and John J. Kavelaars using the 200-inch Hale telescope; they also discovered the moon Caliban at the same time.
Sycorax is named after Caliban's mother in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
www.hexafind.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Sycorax_(moon)   (159 words)

  
 Peter Linebaugh: Torture and Neo-Liberalism with Sycorax in Iraq
Peter Linebaugh: Torture and Neo-Liberalism with Sycorax in Iraq
But free-born Caliban, as we remember from The Tempest, had a mother, Sycorax.
The continuity of the attempt to make some of us nonhumans is established by the tortures in our monstrous prison system.
counterpunch.org /linebaugh11272004.html   (3780 words)

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