moons

     

A natural satellite or moon is a celestial boy that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called the primary. Technically, the term natural satellite could refer to a planet orbiting a star, or a dwarf galaxy orbiting a major galaxy, but it is normally synonymous with moon and used to identify non-artificial satellites of planets, dwarf planets, and minor planets. (There are no known natural satellites of moons.)

Trivia about moons

  • Phobos & Deimos are the names of these 2 objects that orbit Mars
  • When Galileo found 4 of these orbiting Jupiter, he named them after the powerful Medici family
  • 1995: "Walk Two" of these celestial bodies