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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)

	Moon@Everything2.com
		A moon and a natural satellite are not the same thing; Earth's moon is not a true satellite since the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is outside of the Earth.
		The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night.
		The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node=moon (1070 words)

	Wikipedia: Sycorax
		Sycorax is a witch living on an island in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
		Sycorax dies before the arrival of Prospero and his daughter, Miranda.
		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.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/s/sy/sycorax.html (167 words)

	Sycorax (moon) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sycorax ("SAI kor aks") is a moon of Uranus.
		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 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.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/Sycorax_(moon) (130 words)

	Sycorax (moon) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sycorax (sik'-or-aks) is a (Any natural satellite of a planet) moon of (A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; 7th from the sun) Uranus.
		Sycorax's composition is probably a mixture of rock and ice, and its unusually (The quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood) red color suggests a historical link with the (Click link for more info and facts about Kuiper belt) Kuiper belt; Sycorax is probably a captured Kuiper Belt object.
		Sycorax is named after Caliban's mother in (English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)) William Shakespeare's play (Click link for more info and facts about The Tempest) The Tempest.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sy/sycorax_(moon).htm (521 words)

	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.
		Sycorax is the seventeenth and outermost of Uranus' known moons.
		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 (918 words)

	* Synchronous rotation - (Astronomy): Definition
		The Moon is in a synchronous rotation with Earth, which means that one side of the Moon (the "near side") is permanently turned towards Earth.
		The Moon is in a synchronous orbit, so the same side of the moon always faces Earth.
		The Moon's orbit is expanding over time as it slows down (the Earth is also slowing down as it loses energy).
	en.mimi.hu /astronomy/synchronous_rotation.html (563 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Sycorax
		Prospero refers to her as a foul witch from Algiers who was banished to the island on the accusation of practicing sorcery- and "one so powerful as could control the Moon".
		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.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Sycorax (228 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)

	Uranus: Moons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In a departure from the usual practice of naming moons for characters in classic mythology, the moons of Uranus are all named for characters in the writings of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
		Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus’ outer moons.
		Though this tiny moon was recorded in photos by Voyager 2 in 1986, it was not noticed until 1999, when it was discovered via careful analysis of the Voyager photos by Erich Karkoschka of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Arizona.
	www.space.com /reference/uranus/moons.html (1447 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.
		They also discovered the moon Caliban at the same time.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sycorax_(moon) (142 words)

	Alpha Centauri's Universe: Exploration Of Sycorax, 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.
		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.earthandspace.info /contents/sycoraxfacts.htm (374 words)

	Sycorax (astronomy) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sycorax (astronomy) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sycorax has an elliptical orbit around Uranus ranging from 6.2 million km (3.9 million mi) to 18 million...
		Astronomy, study of the universe and the celestial bodies, gas, and dust within it.
	encarta.msn.com /Sycorax_(astronomy).html (108 words)

	Solar System E-News
		Sycorax (S/1997 U 2) orbits about 12.2 million km from Uranus and is about 160 km in diameter.
		Prior to this discovery, Uranus was the only one of the gas giants not known to have "irregular" moons, that is, ones whose orbits are not direct and approximately in the plane of the planet's equator.
		In contrast to most of the moons in the outer solar system, Io and Europa may be somewhat similar in bulk composition to the terrestrial planets, primarily composed of molten silicate rock.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/it/low/design_skill/enews/moon.html (524 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)

	The Moons of the Solar System — Sycorax
		Sycorax was Caliban's mother in Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
		It is also one of the two new satellites that were the first to be discovered after the long period of 11 years that came after the →Voyager-2 fly-by.
		Sycorax'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.
	republika.pl /ksiezyce/uranus/sycorax_en.html (439 words)

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		The Voyager team discovered 10 in addition to the 5 known moons in 1986, all in nearly circular orbits.
		The 18th moon was found in May of 1999 by Erich Karkoschka, a researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at The University of Arizona in Tucson.
		Moons of Uranus are traditionally named after characters from the writings of Shakespeare and Pope.
	library.thinkquest.org /27322/planets.php?show=uranus&act=moons (162 words)

	Moons of Uranus - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This moon is the brighter of the two that were discovered by William Lassell in 1851.
		She was enslaved by the evil witch Sycorax for disobedience, but was rescued by the magician Prospero, who also capture the witches deformed son, Caliban, and made him his slave.
		Puck was the first of the 10 moons to be discovered by Voyager 2 as it circled Uranus and was the only one to be discovered in time to allow an adjustment of the spacecraft's flight path to get a closer look.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Moons-of-Uranus-200052.html (796 words)

	Chapter 15: Uranus
		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.
		Since the newly discovered moons are likely to have been captured by Uranus soon after its formation, the Nature article notes, "their physical properties may provide clues to conditions in the early solar system." The process of capture could have taken two forms, Nicholson says.
		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.williams.edu /Astronomy/jay/ETU5/chapter15_5th.html (3430 words)

	Space Today Online - Solar System - Planet Uranus - Moons
		Moon diameters range from a bit fatter than 25 miles up to about 1,100 miles.They circle Uranus in orbits ranging from every eight hours to every 14 days.
		That moon probably is the source of the fresh dust that replenishes the ring with matter knocked off the moon by meteoroid impacts.
		For instance, the moons Cordelia and Ophelia are shepherds, keeping the eleven large rings around Uranus from spreading into space.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Uranus/UranusMoons.html (1380 words)

	Natural satellite - Wikinfo
		Most moons are assumed to have been formed out of the same collapsing region of protoplanetary disk that gave rise to its primary.
		Several moons are thought to be captured foreign objects, fragments of larger moons shattered by large impacts, or (in the case of Earth's moon) a portion of the planet itself blasted into orbit by a large impact.
		Most moons in the solar system are tidally locked to their primaries; an exception is Saturn's moon Hyperion, which rotates chaotically due to a variety of external influences.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Natural_satellite (1300 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.
		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.
		The fainter moon was discovered almost directly east of the planet (note that east is to the left when looking up at the sky while facing south).
	www.solarviews.com /eng/caliban.htm (764 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The moons of far-off planetary bodies are fainter and more difficult to spot than those of nearby ones ^Ö not only does the brightness of the sunlight they reflect drop off with increasing distance from the Sun, the satellites are farther from observers on Earth as well.
		A 1-km diameter moon of Jupiter appears as bright as a 4-km moon at Saturn, a 16-km moon at Uranus and a 36-km moon at Neptune.
		Furthermore, the orbital tilts are not randomly distributed, but rather are grouped into associations that imply a common origin for the members of a given group, perhaps like the families of asteroids in the main asteroid belt that are the remains of larger parent objects that were broken apart in catastrophic impacts long ago.
	www.astro.umd.edu /~hamilton/ftp/old/hobos3.em (2175 words)

	Sault Theatre Workshop's - STAGE 1
		Sycorax orbits about 12.2 million km from Uranus and is about 120 km in diameter.
		His mother, Sycorax, is referred to, by Prospero.
		Of course the other connection between Shakespeare and astronomy is the fact that he was born in the same year as the astronomer Gallileo.
	www.stage1theatre.com /moons.html (342 words)

	Uranus' New Moons
		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.
		These are the dimmest moons ever to have been imaged with a ground-based instrument.
		For several years after its discovery, this moon was thought to be non-existent as it couldn't be seen with Earth-based telescopes (and we have no new spacecraft near Uranus :-(But in 2003 it was recovered by the newest camera on HST.
	www.nineplanets.org /uranew.html (834 words)

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		The first two moons (Titania (moon)Titania and Oberon (moon)Oberon) were discovered by William Herschel on March 13, 1787.
		The flyby of the Voyager 2 space probe in January 1986 led to the discovery of a further 10 moons, and another satellite S/1986 U 10 was later found after studying old Voyager photographs.
		All moons of Uranus are named after characters from the works of William ShakespeareShakespeare and Alexander Pope.
	www.gateserver.net /Topicdetails.aspx?Topicid=18888&name=&catid=566&topicname=Uranus (274 words)

	Caliban (moon of Uranus)
		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.
		Like Sycorax, it has a reddish hue, suggesting it may have come from the Kuiper Belt.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/Caliban.html (165 words)

	On This and Other Moons
		If the sizes of the moons are expressed relative to their primary (the planet they orbit) there are still more surprises.
		Being close to Jupiter (it is the innermost of the Galilean moons) the planet's massive gravity stretches the moon by some 100m and locks its rotation so the same side always faces the planet.
		But nearby moons Europa and Ganymede peturb it when they pass, making the tidal bulges shift and heating the Io's interior with the friction of the flexing.
	www.inconstantmoon.com /cyc_moon.htm (1127 words)

	The Names of the Moons and Their Meanings
		Io Zeus turned her into a white heifer to hide from Hera, his jealous wife, but was discovered and relentlessly tormented with a gadfly--an ancestor of Heracles.
		Mundilfari A Norse Giant who angered the gods by naming his beautiful children Mani (moon) and Sol (sun); the children were then forced to guide the chariots of their namesakes.
		All of Uranus's moons are named for Shakespeare characters, which is too bad, because there were plenty of Titans and monsters associated with him that could have been used.
	www.fief.org /kathleen/Moons/Moons.html (2514 words)

	Sycorax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For the moon of Uranus, see Sycorax (moon).
		Sycorax is a fictional character mentioned though not seen in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest, a witch from Argier who lived on the island until her death about twenty-four years before the action of the play.
		She was banished to the island for practicing sorcery while pregnant with her son, Caliban, and while she was there she enslaved the spirits to do her bidding, chiefly among them Ariel, whom she finally imprisoned in a pine tree for disobedience.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Sycorax (129 words)

	* Sycorax - (Astronomy): Definition
		The names Caliban and Sycorax have been proposed by the discoverers and will very likely be accepted by the.
		The names Caliban and Sycorax proposed by the discoverers have now been officially accepted by the.
		Two additional satellites, Caliban and Sycorax, were discovered in 1997, and three more, Prospero, Setebos, and Stephano, were found in 1999.
	en.mimi.hu /astronomy/sycorax.html (180 words)

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