NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Celestial body

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Sun Planets Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Phobos Deimos Jupiter satellites Saturn satellites Uranus satellites Neptune satellites Pluto Charon Asteroids Near-Earth asteroids "Vulcanoids" "Apoheles" Atens Apollos Amors Asteroid belt Trojan asteroids Meteoroids Meteor showers Centaurs Comets Periodic comets Long period comets Lost comets Trans-Neptunian objects Kuiper Belt Cubewanos Plutinos Scattered Disk Objects Sedna Oort Cloud	Exoplanets Hot Jupiters Eccentric Jupiters Transiting planets Pulsar planets Free-floating planets Brown dwarfs Lithium dwarfs Methane dwarfs Stars by spectral type Blue stars Blue-white stars White stars Yellow-white stars Yellow stars Orange stars Red stars Carbon stars Wolf-Rayet stars Stars by luminosity class Dwarf (Main sequence) stars Yellow dwarfs Orange dwarfs Red dwarfs Subgiant stars Giant stars Red giants Blue giants Bright giant stars Supergiant stars Red supergiants Hypergiant stars Variable stars Pulsating variables Mira variables Cepheid variables Semiregular variables Irregular variables Eruptive variables Flare stars Luminous blue variables Cataclysmic variables Dwarf novae Novae Supernovae Gamma ray bursts Collapsars Hypernovae Rotating variables Compact stars White dwarfs Black dwarfs Neutron stars Magnetars Pulsars Strange stars Black holes Supermassive black holes	Multiple stars Binary stars Optical binaries Visual binaries Astrometric binaries Spectroscopic binaries Eclipsing binaries Detached binaries Semidetached binaries Contact binaries X-ray bursters Triple stars Stellar groupings Star clusters Stellar associations Open clusters Globular clusters Constellations Asterisms Galaxies Galaxies by morphology Spiral galaxies Barred spiral galaxies Lenticular galaxies Elliptical galaxies Ring galaxies Irregular galaxies Galaxies by size Giant ellipticals Dwarf galaxies Ultracompact galaxies Active galaxies Blazars Quasars Radio galaxies Seyfert galaxies Starburst galaxies Galaxy clusters Galaxy cluster clouds Superclusters Filaments / Voids	Circumstellar matter Dust disks Interplanetary medium Protoplanetary disks Interstellar medium Nebulae Planetary nebulae Supernova remnants Bright nebulae Emission nebulae Reflection nebulae H II regions Dark nebulae Molecular clouds Intergalactic medium Cosmic microwave background radiation Dark matter MACHOs WIMPs

See lists of astronomical objects for a list of the various lists of astronomical objects in Wikipedia.

Categories: Astronomy

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Celestial mechanics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1133 words)
	Celestial mechanics is a division of astronomy dealing with the motions and gravitational effects of celestial objects.
	Celestial motion without additional forces such as thrust of a rocket, is governed by gravitational acceleration of masses due to other masses.
	Celestial navigation is a position fixing technique that was the first system devised to help sailors locate themselves on a featureless ocean.

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