Origin
Sycorax is hypothesized to be a captured object: it did not form in the accretionary disk, which existed around Uranus just after its formation. The exact capture mechanism is not known, but capturing a moon requires the dissipation of energy. The possible capture processes include: gas drag in the protoplanetary disk, many-body interactions and the capture during the fast growth of the Uranus's mass (so called pull-down).
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