2. INDEX
• What’s a satellite
• Types of satellites
• The satellites of different planets of our solar
system.
• Our satellite
• The most important satellites of each planet.
3. WHAT’S A SATELLITE?
A natural satellite is any natural object that
orbits a planet. We can named moon to a
satellite, because our satellite is the Moon.
4. TYPES OF SATELLITES
There are four types of satellites.
These types are:
• Shepherd satellites
• Trojan satellites
• Coorbital satellites
• Asteroidal satellites
5. THE SATELLITES OF DIFFERENT
PLANETS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
All the planets except Mercury and Venus has one satellite
minimum.
• Mercury- 0 In the solar system are 155 satellites
• Venus- 0 distributed in almost all the planets.
• The Earth- 1
• Mars- 2
• Jupiter- 63
• Saturn- 62
• Uranus- 27
• Neptune- 13
• Pluto- 3
6. OUR SATELLITE
We have one satellite, the Moon.
All times we can see the same side of the Moon,
but depending of how comes the sunlight we can
see more or less.
The origin of the Moon:
Daughter theory
Sister theory
Captured theory
Big crush theory
7. THE MOST IMPORTANT SATELLITES OF
EACH PLANET
All the planets have more important satellites
than the others:
Mars: Deimos and Fobos. Pluto: Caront
Jupiter: Europe and Ganimedes.
Saturn: Titanus.
Uranus: Cordelai and Titania.
Neptune:Nereid and Naiad.
