satellite of a planet?
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A satellite is the moon of a planet.
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yes we can, and actually astronomers have been working on it for the last 15 years or so, the problem is that there is no telescope currently powerful enough to directly see any planets orbiting other stars, the most common problem is that what little light is reflected by the planet gets easily lost in the glare of the stares light, so the only way that we can find out weather or not a star has planets orbiting around it, is by looking at the influence the planet has on the star, like causing it to wobble, this is because as a planet orbits around a star, it causes the star to slightly wobble with the orbit of the planet, and it is that slight wobble by which astronomers can estimate the mass and speed of rotation and many other details about the planet.\n\nnow if you are asking this to find out if there's any life out there, i would suggest reading this book called "Faint Echoes, Distant Stars" it will open up a whole new world of possibilities to you, here is a link to it\nhttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0060750995&itm=4
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With this information contained...no wonder not anyone really has a handle on the exact definition of a planet.  It will be debated for a long time.\n\n# (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction\n# satellite: a person who follows or serves another\n# any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star\nwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\n# A planet (from the Greek πλανήτης, planētēs which means "wanderer" or more forcefully "vagrant, tramp") is an object in orbit around a star that is not a star in its own right. Much like "continent," "planet" is a word without a precise definition, with history and culture playing as much of a role as geology and astrophysics (see Definition of planet). ...\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet\n\n# Overview of the Planets in the Solar System.}\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(Table)\n\n# Planet is a literary magazine based in Wales.\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(magazine)\n\n# An object orbiting a star that is not a brown dwarf but bigger than an asteroid. This is somewhat ambiguous. In our solar system it is really an historical definition which boils down to "a planet is a member of the set {Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto}". All the known planets orbiting other stars are large gas planets so no ambiguity yet arises there. ...\nwww.astro.uio.no/ita/TNP/nineplanets/help.html\n\n# is the term used for a body in orbit around the Sun. The word comes from the Greek planetes, and means "wanderers." Our solar system has nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. An easy way to remember their names in the correct order is to keep in mind the following sentence: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles. The first letter of each word is the first letter of each planet. ...\nwww.teachervision.fen.com/page/1513.html\n\n# A major object which orbits around a star. In our solar system, there arenine such objects which aretraditionally called "planets'': Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (There are no "official'' specifications for how big an object must be to be called a planet rather than, for example, an "asteroid.'') While no individual planet has ever been seen orbiting around another star, we wouldn't expect to see them, given the limits of current technology. ...\nwww.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/14/14.html\n\n# A spherical ball of rock and/or gas that orbits a star. The Earth is a planet. Our solar system has nine planets. These planets are, in order of increasing present distance from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, and Neptune.\naffy50.tripod.com/Glossary.html\n\n# describes any heavenly body which when viewed from Earth appears to move, as distinguished from fixed stars.\nwww.findyourfate.com/faq/p-glossary.htm\n\n# One of nine major bodies that orbit the Sun, visible to us by reflected sunlight.\nastronomy.nju.edu.cn/astron/AT3/GLOSS_P.HTM\n\n# low-mass body that orbits a star.\nschool.discovery.com/curriculumcenter/solarsystem/glossary.html\n\n# there is no set scientific definition for planet (from the Greek planetes “wanderers”), but as a rule of thumb, a planet: 1) must directly orbit a star or an object that has nuclear fusion; 2) must be small enough that it has not undergone internal nuclear fusion (ie, it is not a star or starlike object); and 3) must be large enough that its self-gravity gives it the general shape of a sphere.\nwww.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004425.h
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It is called "Satellite".
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is it from this planet itself?
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Yeah, sure...\n\nStar...moon...universe...\nplanet...comet...\nconstellation...
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Do you mean satellites people made that are still up there? Because I think there is an answer to that question.\n\nBut natural satellites? Gazillions.
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A planet is a mass that orbits a central star, is massive enough to 'press' itself into a spherical shape but is not massive enough for nuclear fusion to take place.  In simpler terms, a planet is a large, usually rocky, rock that rotates around a star, like the sun.  Sometimes planets can be giant balls of gas (like Jupiter), but they still rotate none the less.
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Its a planet!!  On a serious note try this link\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto\n\n:) Hope this helps........
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Yes UB313 (which was not discovered last year, but in 2003).\n\nBe careful calling it a planet, however.  Web sites and journalists love to talk about the "tenth planet" because it sounds more exciting that "yet another trans-neptunian object (TNO)."  However, astronomers (the International Astronomical Union, or IAU) do not officially recognize this as a "planet."  This may change later this year (in September) when the IAU is scheduled to come up with a more solid definition of what a "planet" is (how big, what orbit, etc.) ... but until then, you sound more like a real astronomer if you don't call it a "planet."
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There are two types of satellites: polar and geostationary. Polar satellites circle the earth, covering the north pole and the south pole on every circle, at an altitude of about 850 km. A geostationary satellite "moves with the earth" and is always situated over the same place over the equator, at an altitude of about 36000 km.
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Well... Pluto isn't exactly a planet... some people speculate it is... others don't. Yes, another one has been discovered a while ago... I think it was Planet Nebula or something... in the far away galaxy of Cygnus (the constellation that resembles a goose)... You are talking about our solar system... right? I thought as much. In our solar system... there'd be 8 or 9, depending if you call Pluto a planet or not.\n\nEDIT: OK... there was one mass that could be considered a planet found in our solar system. It was called Ceres or something... found between Mars and Jupiter. Pluto may be an asteroid!
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There are alot of objects that exist beyond Pluto. Yet, at this point none of these is really large enough to be considered a planet. Check the source link for more info.
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I could think of only two things that may (or may not) be that for which you are searching.\n\nThe first is simply a solar system mobile.  A simple string and crossbar mobile that children can put together.  Unfortunately a slight breeze could have them all going retrograde at once! Moons of the various planets are not generally included and the orbits are not elliptical.\n\nThe second is:\n"An orrery is a mechanical device that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the solar system in heliocentric model. They are typically driven by a large clockwork mechanism with a globe representing the Sun at the center, and with a planet at the end of each of the arms." *\n\nI watched a program on Leonardo DaVinci and a section of this program had this tucked in the 3rd hour.  Coming back to find your question was interesting to say the least.   I hope this is what you need.
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The newly discovered planet that rotates our sun is called 2003 UB313, but this question is causing a stir because since theres so many objects that are the size of pluto that rotate our sun scientists are trying to define what the term "planet" exactly means.\nfor more information look at the website below from "NASA"
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I quote : "Two small moons have been discovered orbiting Pluto, bringing the planet's retinue of known satellites to three and leaving scientist to wonder how it could be. ...The moons are catalogued as S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2 for now. Once they are confirmed, the discoverers will suggest names, to be approved by the International Astronomical Union."\n\nFrom: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/051031_pluto_moons.html
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Earth.  But one of them is not a true moon.  It's only a temporary one.