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Solar system list of planets and moons.
Names of all the planets of the solar system.
These are the planets mercury and venus and the dwarf planets ceres and makemake.
Neptune s moon proteus is on the edge they are shown here to scale with each other.
Of the 13 planets and dwarf planets there are four which don t have any moons.
Moons come in many shapes sizes and types.
The timeline of discovery of solar system planets and their natural satellites charts the progress of the discovery of new bodies over history.
Moons also known as natural satellites orbit planets and asteroids.
Planets and asteroids in our solar system orbit the sun.
List of former planets for a list of objects in the solar system including planets that have been or are believed to exist but either have not been proven or have been disproven see.
This simulated view of our solar system runs on real data.
There are more than 200 moons in our solar system.
The listed objects currently include most objects in the asteroid belt and moons of the giant planets in this size range but many newly discovered objects in the outer solar system are missing such as those included in the following reference.
The solar system s major moons the solar system contains 18 or 19 natural satellites of planets that are large enough for self gravity to make them round.
The position of the planets moons and spacecraft are shown where they are right now.
Why the uncertain number.
List of gravitationally rounded objects of the solar system for a list of objects in the solar system once but no longer considered planets see.
Mercury is too close to the sun to hold on to a moon.
Asteroid spectral types are mostly tholen but some might be smass.
The planets are in order of the date of discovery.
Moons in the solar system.
Know all 219 known moons of all the planets in our solar system.
It also lists the names and locations of each planet and satellite discoverer if known and provides the meaning derivation for each name.
This page shows the names of all the planets and also the names of the currently known moons.
This digital orrery a model of the solar system runs on a light mobile mobile friendly version of nasa s eyes on the solar system software.
Most orbit the giant planets with saturn and jupiter leading moon counts but even smaller worlds like pluto can have five moons in orbit.
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Every so often new moons are discovered for saturn and the dwarf planets.
Well here they are.
This is a list of the recognized moons of the planets and of the largest potential dwarf planets of the solar system ordered by their official roman numeral designations the 19 moons that are large enough to have been rounded by their own gravity are listed in bold the seven largest moons which are larger than any of the known dwarf planets are listed in bold and italic.