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Star Report with Anne Blackwell of Maria Mitchell Association - Satellites in the Sky

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Anne Blackwell a NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates fellow at the Maria Mitchell Association, discusses Satellites in the sky. An artificial satellite is a man-made object in orbit around a planetary body, like the Earth. There are over 10,000 in orbit around the Earth right now with one of the most famous being the International Space Station. You can see the satellites and the ISS all over the night sky as a star-like object moving at a constant speed in a line across the sky.

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