How is an artificial sattelite different from a natural sattelite ? Give one example of each.

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The satellites are of two types: natural and artificial satellites. Natural Satellites are those they have originated naturally,no human intervention in their creation .
Eg. Moon.
An artificial satellite is a man-made object revolving around the earth. The first artificial satellite was the Sputnik 1 mission, launched by Russia in 1957.

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