Natural satellite

Quality:

Natural satellite - celestial body that orbits a planet or other smaller body in turn directly orbiting a star. Article “Natural satellite” in Simple English Wikipedia has 49 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2123^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 683^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9408^th most popular in all topics.

The 5947^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 5484^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 626^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9028^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Natural satellite” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (626^th place) and written by 22 authors in all languages (9028^th place).

Since the creation of article “Natural satellite”, its content was written by 101 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (683^rd place) and edited by 3313 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5947^th place).

The article is cited 376 times in Simple English Wikipedia (7649^th place) and cited 168739 times in all languages (704^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #14 in February 2004
• Global: #1140 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #372 in February 2009
• Global: #3261 in May 2012

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Natural satellite		85.6429
2	Slovak (sk) Mesiac (družica)		75.3558
3	Tamil (ta) இயற்கைத் துணைக்கோள்		50.6873
4	German (de) Mond des Sonnensystems		50.1291
5	Catalan (ca) Satèl·lit natural		49.1217
6	Simple English (simple) Natural satellite		49.0242
7	Turkish (tr) Doğal uydu		41.4642
8	Hebrew (he) ירח		40.5187
9	Latin (la) Satelles		39.1692
10	Persian (fa) قمر		39.1319

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Satélite natural		8 575 877
2	English (en) Natural satellite		5 965 662
3	Portuguese (pt) Satélite natural		1 884 199
4	Japanese (ja) 衛星		1 550 491
5	French (fr) Satellite naturel		1 437 415
6	German (de) Mond des Sonnensystems		1 094 039
7	Italian (it) Satellite naturale		777 474
8	Polish (pl) Naturalny satelita		709 661
9	Persian (fa) قمر		653 239
10	Chinese (zh) 衛星		609 620

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Natural satellite		12 356
2	Spanish (es) Satélite natural		4 003
3	Japanese (ja) 衛星		2 999
4	German (de) Mond des Sonnensystems		2 477
5	Persian (fa) قمر		1 336
6	French (fr) Satellite naturel		1 286
7	Chinese (zh) 衛星		1 286
8	Italian (it) Satellite naturale		1 242
9	Russian (ru) Естественный спутник		1 000
10	Portuguese (pt) Satélite natural		825

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Natural satellite		675
2	Spanish (es) Satélite natural		216
3	Hebrew (he) ירח		183
4	French (fr) Satellite naturel		178
5	German (de) Mond des Sonnensystems		172
6	Italian (it) Satellite naturale		111
7	Simple English (simple) Natural satellite		101
8	Dutch (nl) Natuurlijke maan		89
9	Portuguese (pt) Satélite natural		89
10	Hungarian (hu) Hold (égitesttípus)		86

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Satellite naturale		10
2	Dutch (nl) Natuurlijke maan		4
3	English (en) Natural satellite		3
4	Simple English (simple) Natural satellite		2
5	Persian (fa) قمر		1
6	Tamil (ta) இயற்கைத் துணைக்கோள்		1
7	Uzbek (uz) Tabiiy yoʻldosh		1
8	Arabic (ar) قمر طبيعي		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Təbii peyk		0
10	Belarusian (be) Спадарожнік (космас)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information