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Name All The Moons; About; Catalog of Moons A-Z. There are 288 discovered natural satellites – or moons, as they are more commonly referred to – in the Solar system. Most of them are found orbiting the outer gas giants. 164 of those moons have proper names as many smaller ones are still being discovered and have not been confirmed and named ...
A complete list of the 181 moons that are orbiting planets and dwarf planets in our solar system, with facts and information about each moon.
Do you know all 294 moons of the planets (and dwarf planets) in our solar system? Well here they are! Every so often new moons are discovered for Jupiter and Saturn.
There are 171 moons, or natural satellites, orbiting the planets in our solar system; Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have 1, 2, 66, 62, 27, and 13 moons, respectively. The following is a list of some of the major planetary moons, including those of the dwarf planet.
According to the NASA/JPL Solar System Dynamics team, the current tally of moons orbiting planets in our solar system is 293: One moon for Earth; two for Mars; 95 at Jupiter; 146 at Saturn; 28 at Uranus; 16 at Neptune; and five for dwarf planet Pluto.
A lot of moons or no moons at all? We on Earth have just one moon, but some planets have dozens of them. Others don’t have any. Which planets have moons, and which don’t? Let’s go in order from the Sun. Mercury and Venus. Up first are Mercury and Venus. Neither of them has a moon.
There are 181 known moons in our Solar System which are orbiting planets and dwarf planets. Despite there being so many moons not every planet or dwarf planet has a moon. A table of planets and dwarf planets with the number of moons is below.
There are hundreds of moons in our solar system – even asteroids have been found to have small companion moons. Of the terrestrial (rocky) planets of the inner solar system, neither Mercury nor Venus have any moons at all, Earth has one and Mars has its two small moons.
There are 290 confirmed moons in our Solar System. This number includes only the planetary moons. Here is the complete list of the moons in the Solar System.
The following tables contain all the known moons of the solar system, including the dozens of moons circling Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.