Solar System Planets Moons List

Moons in the solar system.

Solar system planets moons list. There are 171 moons or natural satellites orbiting the planets in our solar system. Neptune s moon proteus is on the edge they are shown here to scale with each other. Names of all the planets of the solar system. The planets are in order of the date of discovery.

Well here they are. Why the uncertain number. Moons come in many shapes sizes and types. Earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune have 1 2 66 62 27 and 13 moons respectively.

Every so often new moons are discovered for saturn and the dwarf planets. Know all 219 known moons of all the planets in our solar system. There are currently 181 known moons in our solar system orbiting the various planets and dwarf planets. Seven are larger than pluto and eris.

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. Moons also known as natural satellites orbit planets and asteroids. 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. There are more than 200 moons in our solar system.

M apparent magnitude mercury moons 0. Planets and asteroids in our solar system orbit the sun. Most orbit the giant planets with saturn and jupiter leading moon counts but even smaller worlds like pluto can have five moons in orbit. It also lists the names and locations of each planet and satellite discoverer if known and provides the meaning derivation for each name.

Mercury is too close to the sun to hold on to a moon. Moons orbit the full size planets mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune while moons orbit the smaller dwarf planets ceres pluto haumea makemake and eris. This is a list of possibly gravitationally rounded objects of the solar system which are objects that have a rounded ellipsoidal shape due to their own gravity hydrostatic equilibrium their sizes range from former dwarf planets and moons to the planets and the sun this list does not include small solar system bodies but it does include a sample of possible planetary mass objects whose. Of the 13 planets and dwarf planets there are four which don t have any moons.

These are the planets mercury and venus and the dwarf planets ceres and makemake. Venus moons 0. This page shows the names of all the planets and also the names of the currently known moons.