Sycorax
Sycorax is a moon of the gas giant planet Uranus.
Facts About Sycorax:
- Sycorax is the 23rd moon from Uranus.
- Its orbit is retrograde, so it orbits in the opposite direction to the rotation of Uranus.
- It orbits a long way from Uranus (12 million km) and takes about 3.5 Earth years to orbit once.
- It is likely that Sycorax was a passing object that got caught in Uranus' gravity and captured into orbit.
Classification: Moon (orbiting Uranus)
Names: Sycorax, Uranus XVII, S/1997 U2
Discovered: 1997 by Nicholson et al.
Naming: Named after a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
Magnitude: 20.8000 (app) 7.5000 (abs)
Diameter: 160 km
Mass: 2.5e+18 kg
Rotation period: 6.9162 hours
Orbit Radius: 12,179,000 km
Semi-major axis: 12193230
Orbital Period: 1,286.28 Earth days
Eccentricity: 0.48418890
Albedo: 0.0650
Density: 1.3000 g/cm3
Adjective: Sycoraxian