
How many moons does the Earth have?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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How Do You Define Species of Bacteria?
Before sputnick, astronomers used the word satellite to talk about anything orbiting another object. Then when they launched sputnick, they realized, hold on a second, what are wou goin to call that? And so they started to use the word artificial satellite. I think that's sort of cool that the scientists adopted a word from sort of common usage.
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