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...

eight planets and its nine most likely dwarf planets, six planets and seven dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 300 natural satellites, or...

The Planet Satellite was a British light aircraft of the late 1940s. Designed to exploit new technology, the aircraft was abandoned after two crashes although...

July 2015, Planet Labs had 87 Dove and 5 RapidEye satellites launched into orbit. In 2017, Planet launched an additional 88 Dove satellites, and Google...

The timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history. Each object...

minor-planet moon is an astronomical object that orbits a minor planet as its natural satellite. As of January 2022[update], there are 457 minor planets known...

solids and gas, a giant planet, an ice giant, or a terrestrial planet may result. It is thought that the regular satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus...

A quasi-satellite is an object in a specific type of co-orbital configuration (1:1 orbital resonance) with a planet (or dwarf planet) where the object...

they would be considered major planets if they were in direct orbit around the Sun. The other four regular satellites, known as the inner moons, are much...

formally adopted the name Jupiter for the planet in 1976 and has since named its newly discovered satellites for the god's lovers, favourites, and descendants...

In astronomy, a double planet (also binary planet) is a binary satellite system where both objects are planets, or planetary-mass objects, and whose joint...

are best known as planetary rings, common components of satellite systems around giant planets such as of Saturn, or circumplanetary disks. But they can...

dynamics). This conceptualization of planets as three classes of objects (classical planets, dwarf planets and satellite planets) has not been accepted by the...

Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites...

"Secular effects of tidal friction on the planet–satellite systems of the solar system", Moon and the Planets, 18 (2): 203–216, Bibcode:1978M&P....18....

Sons. pp. 150 (see p. 68). ISBN 978-0-471-96015-7. OCLC 33103787. "Planet and Satellite Names and Discoverers". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS...

configuration of two or more astronomical objects (such as asteroids, moons, or planets) orbiting at the same, or very similar, distance from their primary; i...

planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet...

(just outside Neptune's orbit). Six planets, seven dwarf planets, and other bodies have orbiting natural satellites, which are commonly called 'moons'...

temporary satellite is an object which has been captured by the gravitational field of a planet and thus has become the planet's natural satellite, but, unlike...

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical...

Solar System: classical planets, dwarf planets, and satellite planets. Dwarf planets were thus conceived of as a category of planet. In 2006, however, the...

initial letter of their parent planet and their Roman numeral. ^ Uranus satellite info taken from NASA Uranian Satellite Fact Sheet. ^ Radii for plutoid...

(134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto. It has a mean radius of 606 km (377 mi). Charon is the...

2006). "Subsurface oceans and deep interiors of medium-sized outer planet satellites and large trans-neptunian objects". Icarus. 185 (1): 258–273. Bibcode:2006Icar...

communications satellites for mass communications. He suggested that three geostationary satellites would provide coverage over the entire planet.: 1–2  In...

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest...

minor planet satellites, such as asteroid moons, follows that established for the satellites of the major planets. With minor planets, the planet letter...

include planets, dwarf planets, planetary-mass satellites and free-floating planets, which may have been ejected from a system (rogue planets) or formed...

a human leader of the human satellite base In October 2016, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) director Matt...