Moons of solar system

[immortal]

Does anyone know how many moons are there in Solar system at present?

[Klaynos]

A quick google gave me a list of about 130....

[immortal]

I think it is lots more than that wikipedia gave me around 240 including moons orbiting smaller solar system bodies like asteroids etc.

[Klaynos]

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.

[Ophiolite]

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.