- List of Solar System objects
The following is a list of
Solar System objects by orbit, ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more.*The
Sun , aspectral class G2Vstar *The inner Solar System and the
terrestrial planets
**Mercury
***Mercury-crosser asteroids
**Venus
***Venus-crosser asteroids
****Venus'quasi-satellite
**Earth
***Moon (Luna)
****Possible Kordylewski Cloud
***Near-Earth asteroid s
***Earth-crosser asteroids
****Earth'squasi-satellite s
**Mars
***Deimos
***Phobos
***Mars trojans
***Mars-crosser asteroids
**Asteroid belt and surrounds
***Ceres, adwarf planet in the asteroid belt
***Asteroid s in the Main Asteroid Belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
****Pallas
****Juno
****Vesta
****Asteroids number in the hundreds of thousands. For longer lists, seelist of noteworthy asteroids ,list of asteroids , or list of objects by mass.
***A number of smaller groups distinct from the Main Belt.
***Asteroid moon s*The middle Solar System with the
giant planet s, their satellites, trojan asteroids and someminor planet s
**Jupiter
***Complete list ofJupiter's natural satellites
***Io
***Europa
***Ganymede
***Callisto
***Jupiter'strojan asteroid s
**Saturn
***Rings of Saturn
***Complete list ofSaturn's natural satellites
***Mimas
***Enceladus
***Tethys
***Dione
***Saturn'sTrojan moon s
***Rhea
***Titan
***Hyperion
***Iapetus
**Uranus
***Complete list ofUranus' natural satellites
***Miranda
***Ariel
***Umbriel
***Titania
***Oberon
**Neptune
***Complete list ofNeptune's natural satellites
***Proteus
***Triton
***Nereid
***Neptune trojans
**Non-trojanminor planet s
***Centaurs
***Damocloids
*Trans-Neptunian object s beyond the orbit of Neptune
**Kuiper belt objects (KBOs)
***Plutino s
****Pluto , adwarf planet
*****Charon
*****Nix
*****Hydra
****90482 Orcus
***Twotino
***Cubewano s (classical objects)
****50000 Quaoar
****20000 Varuna
****dp|Haumea, adwarf planet
****Dp|Makemake, adwarf planet
***Kuiper cliff , the abrupt end of the Kuiper Belt.
**Scattered disc objects
***Eris, adwarf planet
****Dysnomia
***mpl|(84522) 2002 TC|302
***90377 Sedna (possibly inner Oort Cloud)
***2000 OO67 comet?
**Oort Cloud (hypothetical)The Solar System also contains:*
Comet s (icy bodies with eccentric orbits).
**List of periodic comets
**List of non-periodic comets
*Small objects, including:
**Meteoroid s
**Dust , includinginterstellar dust .
***Helium Focusing Cone , around the Sun.
***Gegenschein
**Manmade objects orbiting the Sun, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Saturn including active artificialsatellites andspace junk
*Heliosphere , a bubble in space produced by the solar wind.
**Heliosheath
***Heliopause
***Hydrogen wall , a pile up of hydrogen from theinterstellar medium .See also
*
Natural satellite for a complete list of moons.
*Planetary ring s
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