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A moon is a natural satellite, as opposed to an artificial satellite, which is a man-made object in orbit.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoMoon is a natural satellite. it revolves around earth.
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What is the largest natural satellite orbiting the earth?
The only natural satellite orbiting Earth is the moon.
A natural satellite orbiting the earth is?
It is the moon.
What is the largest satellite in the world?
The moon. It is the earth's only natural satellite.The Earth's largest satellite is the moon, also known as luna.
What is something that orbits?
A Satellite (like our moon) Orbiting bodies are in fact orbiting each other, so that there are binary stars (two stars of about equal size) that are orbiting each other, or even binary planets.
What exactly does perigee mean?
Perigee relates to the orbit of the moon. For example, perigee is defined as the moment when the moon is orbiting "closest" to the Earth. Apogee, the opposite of perigee, is when the moon is orbiting "farthest" away from the Earth.
What is Name of the largest satellite orbiting earth?
The largest satellite orbiting the Earth is the Moon.
What is the largest natural satellite orbiting the earth?
The only natural satellite orbiting Earth is the moon.
Moon is to satellite as earth is to What?
If the Moon is to a satellite, then Earth is to a planet. The Moon is a natural satellite orbiting Earth, just like artificial satellites orbit Earth. Similarly, planets are natural satellites orbiting stars, like Earth orbits the Sun.
What is the satellite orbiting the earth called?
It is the moon.
A natural satellite orbiting the earth is?
It is the moon.
How does the moon become earth's satellite?
By orbiting the earth about once a month.
Is moon a planet or satellite?
The moon is considered to be a satellite of the Earth. But from any place far away, the Earth and Moon might appear to be a double planet orbiting the sun.
Why the satellite revolve around the earth.?
The moon is the only natural satillite orbiting the earth.
What do you call a moon orbiting a moon?
a satellite of a satellite
Why is the moon known as the a satellite?
Assuming no typo on your part regarding the "A" satellite, it would be that the moon was the first satellite orbiting earth. If you meant "why is the moon known as a satellite", it's because it is a satellite. Anything that orbits is a satellite.
What is the largest satellite in the world?
The moon. It is the earth's only natural satellite.The Earth's largest satellite is the moon, also known as luna.
What kind of satellite is the moon?
It depends on if your talking about Earth's moon (aka OUR moon) or just a moon in general. If your talking about OUR moon, then it is Earth's only natural satellite (satellite means an object that orbits something), and that means that it is the only non-manmade object orbiting Earth. So that makes the moon a natural satellite!
