List of Solar System objects

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, a spectral class G2V star

*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 asteroids
***Earth-crosser asteroids
****Earth's quasi-satellites
**Mars
***Deimos
***Phobos
***Mars trojans
***Mars-crosser asteroids
**Asteroid belt and surrounds
***Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
***Asteroids 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, see list of noteworthy asteroids, list of asteroids, or list of objects by mass.
***A number of smaller groups distinct from the Main Belt.
***Asteroid moons

*The middle Solar System with the giant planets, their satellites, trojan asteroids and some minor planets
**Jupiter
***Complete list of Jupiter's natural satellites
***Io
***Europa
***Ganymede
***Callisto
***Jupiter's trojan asteroids
**Saturn
***Rings of Saturn
***Complete list of Saturn's natural satellites
***Mimas
***Enceladus
***Tethys
***Dione
***Saturn's Trojan moons
***Rhea
***Titan
***Hyperion
***Iapetus
**Uranus
***Complete list of Uranus' natural satellites
***Miranda
***Ariel
***Umbriel
***Titania
***Oberon
**Neptune
***Complete list of Neptune's natural satellites
***Proteus
***Triton
***Nereid
***Neptune trojans
**Non-trojan minor planets
***Centaurs
***Damocloids
*Trans-Neptunian objects beyond the orbit of Neptune
**Kuiper belt objects (KBOs)
***Plutinos
****Pluto, a dwarf planet
*****Charon
*****Nix
*****Hydra
****90482 Orcus
***Twotino
***Cubewanos (classical objects)
****50000 Quaoar
****20000 Varuna
****dp|Haumea, a dwarf planet
****Dp|Makemake, a dwarf planet
***Kuiper cliff, the abrupt end of the Kuiper Belt.
**Scattered disc objects
***Eris, a dwarf planet
****Dysnomia
***mpl|(84522) 2002 TC|302
***90377 Sedna (possibly inner Oort Cloud)
***2000 OO67 comet?
**Oort Cloud (hypothetical)The Solar System also contains:

*Comets (icy bodies with eccentric orbits).
**List of periodic comets
**List of non-periodic comets
*Small objects, including:
**Meteoroids
**Dust, including interstellar dust.
***Helium Focusing Cone, around the Sun.
***Gegenschein
**Manmade objects orbiting the Sun, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Saturn including active artificial satellites and space junk
*Heliosphere, a bubble in space produced by the solar wind.
**Heliosheath
***Heliopause
***Hydrogen wall, a pile up of hydrogen from the interstellar medium.

See also

* Natural satellite for a complete list of moons.
* Planetary rings


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • List of Solar System objects by size — Objects in the Solar System By orbit By size By discovery date …   Wikipedia

  • List of Solar System objects by mass — This is a list of Solar System objects by mass, in decreasing order. This list is incomplete because the masses of many minor planets are not accurately known. The ordering is similar to the order of a list of Solar System objects by radius. Some …   Wikipedia

  • List of Solar System objects by radius — This is a list of Solar System objects by radius, arranged in descending order of mean volumetric radius. This list is not exhaustive; it contains the Sun, the planets, several natural satellites, and a number of other notable objects.The… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Solar System objects by surface gravity — Below is a list of Solar System objects by surface gravity.Basis of calculationsThe surface gravity at the equator of a body can in most cases be accurately calculated using Newton s law of universal gravitation and centrifugal force. The… …   Wikipedia

  • List of named Solar System objects — This is a list of named Solar System objects, including planets, moons, dwarf planets, and trans Neptunian objects, ordered alphabetically.For asteroids and other minor planets not listed here, see List of named asteroids.compactTOC2 NOTOC A D G… …   Wikipedia

  • List of Solar System probes — For a list of active probes only, see List of active Solar System probes. For a list of landers only, see Landings on other planets. This is a list of all space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed),… …   Wikipedia

  • List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System — Objects in the Solar System By orbit By size By discovery date …   Wikipedia

  • Solar System — This article is about the Sun and its planetary system. For other systems, see planetary system and star system. For a list of physical and orbital statistics for the Solar System s largest bodies, see List of gravitationally rounded objects of… …   Wikipedia

  • List of man-made objects on the Moon — Map of the Moon showing some landing sites. (Click to enlarge) …   Wikipedia

  • List of active Solar System probes — For a list of all Solar System probes, including historic probes, see List of Solar System probes. The MESSENGER spacecraft, now orbiting Mercury This is a list of active probes which have escaped Earth orbit. It includes lunar probes, but does… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”