Caliban /ˈkælɪbæn/ is the second-largest retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus. It was discovered on 6 September 1997 by Brett J. Gladman, Philip D...
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Stephano (moon) (redirect from Stephano (satellite))
belong to the same dynamic cluster as Caliban, suggesting common origin. Uranus' natural satellites Irregular satellites Shakespeare Recording Society (1995)...
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Moons of Uranus (redirect from Satellite of Uranus)
when astronomers using ground-based telescopes discovered Sycorax and Caliban. From 1999 to 2003, astronomers continued searching for irregular moons...
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S/2023 U 1 (category Caliban group)
the Caliban group, a cluster of retrograde irregular moons of Uranus that includes Stephano and the group's namesake Caliban. The moons of the Caliban group...
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Irregular moon (redirect from Irregular natural satellite)
irregular satellites (Sycorax and Caliban) are light red, whereas the smaller Prospero and Setebos are grey, as are the Neptunian satellites Nereid and...
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A natural satellite is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet, dwarf planet, or small Solar System body (or sometimes another...
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and seven dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 300 natural satellites, or moons. At least 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally...
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Francisco (moon) (redirect from Francisco (satellite))
Francisco is the innermost irregular satellite of Uranus. Francisco was discovered by Matthew J. Holman, et al. and Brett J. Gladman, et al. in 2003 from...
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Robot series (redirect from Isaac Asimov's Caliban)
before his death in 1992, Asimov approved an outline for three novels (Caliban, Inferno, Utopia) by Roger MacBride Allen, set between Robots and Empire...
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Setebos (moon) (redirect from Setebos (satellite))
S/1999 U 1. Confirmed as Uranus XIX, it is named after the god worshipped by Caliban and Sycorax in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. The orbital parameters...
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