Francisco is the innermost

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. Francisco was discovered by Matthew J. Holman, et al. and Brett J. Gladman, et al. in 2003 from pictures taken in 2001 and given the provisional designation S/2001 U 3. Confirmed as Uranus XXII, it was named after a lord in

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Animation of Sycorax orbit around Uranus

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NASA's Solar System Exploration

(by Scott S. Sheppard)
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