I will thank and give 5 stars to whoever answers!! 1: What is another word for satellite as explained in the first sentence?

2: What did the author use to signify the definition for a satellite in the first sentence?

3: Pick another place in the first sentence where the author does the same thing.

4: In the 4th paragraph, the author says "perhaps, one of these large planetesimals, perhaps the size of Mars, was traveling around the sun in an exaggerated elliptical orbit" What it the author referencing?

5: Describe what happened to the planetesimal after it crashed into the Earth.

6: What was the result of the "third and significant portion of the debris" from the crash described in paragraph 8? In your own words, describe how this happened.

7: Describe what happened to the other two portions of debris.

8:What can you conclude about the moon today with the statement, "It must have been a sight hanging up there maybe 30,000 km above Earth, rather than the 385,000 km distance we see today"?

9: What force causes two masses to be attracted to each other?

10: Why can't we feel the gravitation pull of an apple?

11: Explain how gravity affected the debris from the impact event so that the debris began to orbit the Earth.