immortal Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Does anyone know how many moons are there in Solar system at present? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 A quick google gave me a list of about 130.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortal Posted May 22, 2007 Author Share Posted May 22, 2007 I think it is lots more than that wikipedia gave me around 240 including moons orbiting smaller solar system bodies like asteroids etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 I'm pretty sure the ones on the list I looked at where planets only. I dunno when it was up to date to either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ophiolite Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 If we restrict ourselves to planets then the current list would look like this: Mercury: 0 Venus: 0 Earth: 1 + [1] (Cruithne is a small asteroid that interacts gravitationally with the Earth, but is not a true satellite, at least in the conventional sense. See, for example - http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/second_moon_991029.html) Mars: 2 Jupiter: 63 (Difficult to keep up to date with discoveries here. The NASA site currently lists 63: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/joviansatfact.html.) Saturn: 48 + 12 (There are a dozen unconfirmed moons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_moons. ) Uranus: 27 (See, http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus&Display=Moons) Neptune: 13 (See, http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Neptune&Display=Moons) Pluto: 1 (Unless you want to consider Pluto-Charon a double planet.) That runs between 155 and 168. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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