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Could a planet be a satellite?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

By definition a planet cannot be a satellite. A planet is a body that has cleared most of the debris in its orbit about a star. However, a satellite might have an atmosphere. Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has an atmosphere more dense than that of earth.

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