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celestial body

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Kosmoseteaduse ja -tehnoloogia terminibaas

ID 576087 Last modified 23.10.2025
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Domain astronomy
  • igasugune looduslik keha väljaspool Maa atmosfääri
  • any natural body outside of the Earth's atmosphere
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    • Easy examples are the Moon, Sun, and the other planets of our solar system. But those are very limited examples. The Kuiper belt contains many celestial bodies. Any asteroid in space is a celestial body.
taevakeha
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  • Teoreetiline astrofüüsika keskendub teatavaile taevakehadele - mustadele aukudele, barüontähtedele ja kvasaritele.
celestial body
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  • As a celestial body, the asteroid Cruithne is sort of small and indistinct until you consider that it is locked in a 1:1 orbit with the Earth. The asteroid is sometimes referred to as the Earth's second moon. It is not a true moon because the Earth's gravity does not effect it nor does its effect the Earth.
heavenly body
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  • But practicing astronomers, that is those who observed the positions of heavenly bodies and calculated their positions, increasingly began to measure the positions of comets.

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