Stars and the Solar System Test - 4

The artificial satellites are man-made. They are launched from the Earth. Artificial satellites have many practical applications. They are used for forecasting weather, transmitting television and radio signals. They are also used for telecommunication and remote sensing.

A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon.

Hence, answer D is the correct answer

Any celestial body revolving around another celestial body is called its satellite. We use the term satellite for the bodies revolving around planets. Moon is a satellite of the Earth.

Earth, Jupiter and Saturn has natural satellites. Although, Venus has no satellites. Thus out of the all the options option D is the correct answer.

Any naturally occurring object in the observable universe is called a celestial body. The moon is the brightest object in the night sky. The stars, the planets, the moon and many other objects in the sky are called celestial objects.

Morning star is given the name to the planet Venus because sometimes it appears in the eastern sky before sunrise.

There is no atmosphere on the surface of the moon. It is different from that of earth’s. The sound waves need medium to propagate. Therefore, in the absence of an atmosphere one cannot hear sound on the surface of the moon.