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A natural satellite is a small solar system body of natural origin that orbits a larger solar system body. This may include moons around planets and small objects in orbit around dwarf planets or asteroids (Fig. 1).
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Cudnik, B. (2019). Satellite, Natural. In: Cudnik, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lunar Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05546-6_160-1
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