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Natural Satellites By: A. Garrett O. Lubag
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What is a Natural Satellite?
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Moon Celestial Body Planet
tivas.org.uk Moon Celestial Body Planet
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Earth : Moon Mars : Phobos and Deimos Pluto : Charon Uranus : Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon Neptune : Proteus, Triton, Nereid Saturn : Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe
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How do they form?
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Theories of Formation Accretion - Creation is like that of planets
Capture - Some debris in space collided or got caught by larger planets. Fission - Matter thrown off a planet enters orbit around the planet Impact -Big body hits planet hard enough to eject matter, which cools and condenses into a moon.
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Types of Moons Regular Satellites Irregular satellites
Orbit closely to its planet Orbit in the same direction of the planet Orbit in a circle Orbit distantly from its planet Orbit in the opposite direction of the planet Orbit in an ellipse
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Other types of natural satellites
Asteroids Comets Meteors Meteoroids
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Sources for Images http://www.tivas.org.uk/solsys/images/moon.jpg
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Sources of content www.sciencelearn.org.nz
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