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| | 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. |
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