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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    dynamics). This conceptualization of planets as three classes of objects (classical planets, dwarf planets and satellite planets) has not been accepted by the...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • are best known as planetary rings, common components of satellite systems around giant planets such as of Saturn, or circumplanetary disks. But they can...
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    Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites...
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    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...
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    Jupiter (redirect from Planet Jupiter)
    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...
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    "Secular effects of tidal friction on the planetsatellite systems of the solar system", Moon and the Planets, 18 (2): 203–216, Bibcode:1978M&P....18....
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    Orbit (redirect from Satellite orbit)
    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...
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    of the Galilean Satellites, in Bagenal, Fran; Dowling, Timothy E.; and McKinnon, William B., editors; Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere...
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    Uranus (redirect from Planet Uranus)
    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...
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    Solar System (redirect from Inner planet)
    (just outside Neptune's orbit). Six planets, seven dwarf planets, and other bodies have orbiting natural satellites, which are commonly called 'moons'...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Pluto (redirect from Planet Pluto)
    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...
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    Solar System: classical planets, dwarf planets, and satellite planets. Dwarf planets were thus conceived of as a category of planet. In 2006, however, the...
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    Planetary-mass object (category Planets)
    include planets, dwarf planets, planetary-mass satellites and free-floating planets, which may have been ejected from a system (rogue planets) or formed...
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    (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...
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    communications satellites for mass communications. He suggested that three geostationary satellites would provide coverage over the entire planet.: 1–2  In...
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  • minor planet satellites, such as asteroid moons, follows that established for the satellites of the major planets. With minor planets, the planet letter...
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    hypothetical natural satellite that orbits the moon of a planet. It is inferred from the empirical study of natural satellites in the Solar System that...
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  • initial letter of their parent planet and their Roman numeral. ^ Uranus satellite info taken from NASA Uranian Satellite Fact Sheet. ^ Radii for plutoid...
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