Of these all are covered by a crust of ice except for earth s moon and io.
Planets and their satellites names.
Nereid the nereids a group of fifty daughters were attendants of neptune.
Most orbit the giant planets with saturn and jupiter leading moon counts but even smaller worlds like pluto can have five moons in orbit.
Mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune and pluto currently consider as dwarf planet.
Proteus a greek sea god.
Sylvia with 2 moons romulus remus.
The charts below list a few properties of the planets and their named satellites.
Despina daughter of neptune.
Several of the largest ones are in hydrostatic equilibrium and would therefore be considered dwarf planets or planets if they were in direct orbit around the sun and not in their current states.
Galatea one of the attendants of neptune.
Moons are classed in two separate cat.
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Moons also known as natural satellites orbit planets and asteroids.
The solar system boasts a population of eight planets five dwarf planets dozens of satellites and countless small solar system bodies.
Kleopatra with 2 moons alexhelios cleoselene.
Thalassa greek sea goddess.
Larissa a lover of neptune.
Mercury venus earth mars asteroids jupiter saturn uranus neptune dwarf planets.
Daphne with moon peneius kalliope with moon linus.
They are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium jupiter and saturn or of ice rock hydrogen and helium uranus and neptune.
Minerva with 2 moons aegis gorgoneion.
Planets and asteroids in our solar system orbit the sun.
Planet and satellite names and discoverers.
Valetudo names approved for five jovian satellites name approved for neptunian satellite.
Name of all planets in our solar system.
Triton the sea god son of poseidon neptune.
The solar system s planets and its most likely dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 218 natural satellites or moons.
Five other recently discovered satellites are still unnamed.
Although the innermost six planets of the solar system were known from antiquity uranus was discovered in 1781 by w.
2016 25 september 2018 numbered 19 august 2019 named unnamed jupiter lxiii.
2017 unnamed jupiter lxvi.
Numbering of natural satellites name approved for jovian satellite.
19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally rounded.
And ida with moon dactyl.
Planet and satellite names and discoverers mercury venus earth mars asteroids jupiter saturn uranus neptune dwarf planets this page shows information about planetary bodies named by the iau working group for planetary system nomenclature wgpsn and about bodies named by the iau committee on small body nomenclature that have surface features named by the wgpsn.
Eugenia with 2 moons petit prince s 2004.
In contrast the four outer planets also called the jovian or giant planets jupiter saturn uranus and neptune are large objects with densities less than 2 grams per cubic cm.
