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Natural Satellites

•They formed naturally

•We perceive information from them

•We have no control over them

•Naturally orbit a planet

•Cannot be used as a weapon

•Influences nature eg waves etc

•Has no life expectancy

Man made satellites

•Humans made them and put them there

•They feed information directly to us

•We control the satellites and can choose the type of information given to us from them

•Go anywhere we choose to send them

•Can be intentionally used as a weapon by humans

•Sends transmissions to Earth

•Has a limited and known life expectancy

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The name for a natural satellite of a planet is called "a moon".

A moon is a natural satellite, an object that orbits around a planet that was formed naturally.

If there was any redefining of the definition of a planet, it might be possible for Pluto to become a binary dwarf planet or Earth to become a binary planet. The barycenter for Pluto-Charon is outside both objects. and Earth's Moon is the largest by comparative size for any of the major planets.

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The term "moon" would still be appropriate. We are not yet aware of any moons of moons, but it seems likely that one exists somewhere. In our solar system, the most likely candidates would be for Ganymede or Titan to have tiny moons of their own, but none have been detected.

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13y ago

The natural one is the one that was up there all alone until 1957, which everybody can

see in the sky almost every day and night.

The man-made ones are the much smaller ones, that you can hardly see, that have been

going up and coming down since then.

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  • A moon or natural satellite is an object that formed around another, usually, larger object (Planet).
  • An artificial satellite (artificial moon) is an (unnatural or man made) object inserted into a larger objects orbit.

The common terms used are: Moon (Natural satellite), Satellite - artificial.

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10y ago

Artificial: made my humans. Natural: not made by humans.
Satellites are natural bodies that revolve around a planet. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon.

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The laws of "celestial mechanics" apply to any orbiting objects, whether such an object is natural or artificial. In other words, the orbits follow the same rules. For example:* The orbits will be in the shape of an ellipse (or a circle, which is a special case of an ellipse)

* Close to Earth's surface, the speed will be about 7.9 kilometers per second

* In general, if the distance and the shape of the orbit is the same, an artificial or a natural satellite will move at the same speed.

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A moon, as opposed to artificial satellites that we manufacture and place in orbit, like the DirecTV satellite.

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it is a natural satellite. An artificial satellite is man made i.e. the international space station

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A spacecraft is man-made, artificial.

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The only NATURAL satellite of the Earth is the Moon. There are more than a thousand artificial satellites of the Earth.


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