GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -A satellite is anything that orbits around a larger object. A natural satellite is any celestial body in space that orbits around a larger body. Moons are called natural satellites because they orbit planets.

Detailed explanation-2: -A satellite is a smaller object in space which orbits around a larger object in space. Satellites can be either artificial, like the communications and weather satellites that orbit the Earth, or they can be natural, like our Moon.

Detailed explanation-3: -Orbiting objects, which are called satellites, include planets, moons, asteroids, and manmade devices. Objects orbit each other because of gravity.

Detailed explanation-4: -A planet is a large object that orbits a star. To be a planet, an object must be massive enough for gravity to have squeezed it into a spherical, or round, shape, . It must also be large enough for gravity to have swept up any rocky or icy objects from its path, or orbit, around the star.