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natural satellite

celestial body that orbits a planet or other smaller body in turn directly orbiting a star
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Summary

natural satellite is an astronomical object type[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of astronomical object type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,121 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: satellite[3], substellar object[4]
  • Part of: planetary system[5]
  • Commons category: Moons[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Moons[7]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[8], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[9]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox natural satellite[10], Template:Natural satellites[11]
  • Studied by: planetary science[12]
  • Disjoint union of: list of values as qualifiers[13]
  • Next lower rank: natural subsatellite[14]
  • Next higher rank: planet[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]
  • P14541: 3zSUXg[17]

Why It Matters

natural satellite has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 60 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · ~2026-54305-20 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → satellites
    Sitelink count → 138
    Topic has template → Template:Infobox natural satellite, Template:Natural satellites
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'als', 'an', 'anp', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', '
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Topic has template: Template:Natural satellites"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3zSUXg
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → astronomical object type
    Part of → planetary system
    Next lower rank → natural subsatellite
    Part of → —
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 9645, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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