List of Solar System objects
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This is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, by distance from the sun. Most objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more.
Inner Solar System
[change | change source]The inner Solar System contains the terrestrial planets, their satellites, and many asteroids.
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
- Moon (Luna)
- Possible Kordylewski Cloud
- Near-Earth asteroids
- Earth-crosser asteroids
- Earth's quasi-satellites
- Moon (Luna)
- Mars
Asteroid belt
[change | change source]- Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
- Asteroids in the Main Asteroid Belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- Pallas
- Juno
- Vesta
- There are hundreds of thousands of asteroids. 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
Outer Solar System
[change | change source]The outer solar system contains the giant planets, their satellites, trojan asteroids and some minor planets
- Jupiter
- Complete list of Jupiter's moons
- Io
- Europa
- Ganymede
- Callisto
- Jupiter's trojan asteroids
- Saturn
- Rings of Saturn
- Complete list of Saturn's moons
- Mimas
- Enceladus
- Tethys
- Dione
- Saturn's Trojan moons
- Rhea
- Titan
- Hyperion
- Iapetus
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Non-trojan minor planets
Trans-Neptunian objects
[change | change source]Trans-Neptunian objects are objects that have orbits larger than Neptune's. They include Kuiper belt and scattered disc objects.
Kuiper belt objects (KBOs)
[change | change source]- 28978 Ixion
- 120347 Salacia
- Twotino
- Cubewanos (classical objects)
- 50000 Quaoar
Scattered disc objects
[change | change source]- 136199 Eris, a dwarf planet
- 225088 Gonggong
- 90377 Sedna (might orbit in the inner Oort Cloud)
- 2000 OO67 comet?
Other objects
[change | change source]The Solar System also contains other objects, like comets and meteoroids.
- Comets (icy bodies with eccentric orbits).
- Small objects, including:
- Meteoroids
- Dust, including interstellar dust.
- Helium Focusing Cone, around the Sun.
- Gegenschein
- Heliosphere, a bubble in space produced by the solar wind.
- Heliosheath
- Heliopause
- Hydrogen wall, a pile up of hydrogen from the interstellar medium.
- Heliosheath