satellite
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a person who follows or serves another
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any celestial body orbiting around a planet or startypes:lunaany natural satellite of a planettype of:
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man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moontypes:capsula, capsula spazialea spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer spaceastronave, nave spazialea spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction)type of:armamento, attrezzatura, dotazione, equipaggiamentoan instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
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an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic trainsynonyms: planetariotype of:ingranaggioa toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
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Planets and their moons have complex relationships as they spin through space around the sun. These words describe their motions and relationships, and will help you understand the gravity of the situation.
If you've got your head in the clouds, this list of words related to weather and climate will be like a ray of sunshine. Review forms of precipitation, temperature, climate change, and more. You don't need to be a meteorologist to know that the forecast calls for vocabulary!
On October 4, 1957, Russia launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit. This marked the beginning of the Space Race and sparked a great deal of panic in the U.S. Below is vocabulary compiled from the New York Times article published the next day.