Trinculo is a retrograde irregular satellite of

Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Its name is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Uranus (mythology), Uranus (Caelus), who, according to Greek mythology, was the great-grandfather of Ares (Mars (mythology), Mars), grandfather ...

. It was discovered by a group of astronomers led by Holman, ''et al.'' on 13 August 2001, and given the temporary designation S/2001 U 1. Confirmed as Uranus XXI, it was named after the drunken

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Trinculo in

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's play '' The Tempest''. Trinculo is the smallest of Uranus' 27 moons and is approximately only 18 km wide and is roughly the size of

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Animation of Sycorax orbit around Uranus

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Scott S. Sheppard Scott Sander Sheppard (born 1977) is an American astronomer and a discoverer of numerous moons, comets and minor planets in the outer Solar System. He is an astronomer in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Scie ...

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Moons of Uranus Irregular satellites 20010813 Moons with a retrograde orbit {{Astronomy-stub

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