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Satellites

Satellites are objects that orbit other objects. Carol Tear explores websites relating to both natural and artificial satellites

We have different names for the types of natural satellite. Planets and dwarf planets, for example, orbit stars. NASA has information about our solar system and a real-time simulation of where all the planets, dwarf planets and the NASA exploration spacecraft are at this moment:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview

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