Assertion: satellite | /r/CapableOf | orbit planet
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text: If the heavier body is much more massive than the smaller, as in the case of a satellite or small moon orbiting a planet or for the Earth orbiting the Sun, it is accurate enough and convenient to describe the motion in terms of a coordinate system that is centered on the heavier body, and we say that the lighter body is in orbit around the heavier.
text: Some satellites fly near or orbit other planets.
text: Where one body is much more massive than the other (as is the case of an artificial satellite orbiting a planet), it is a convenient approximation to take the center of mass as coinciding with the center of the more massive body.
text: A satellite is a moon, planet or machine that orbits a planet or star.
text: (or planet-) bound; a Satellite is any natural or man-made object that orbits a planet.
text: planets and satellites Planets, dwarf planets and plutoids orbit the Sun, satellites orbit the planets.