Planet With Most Satellites

The solar system has four terrestrial planets.

Planet with most satellites.

Earth has one natural satellite the moon which is in orbit around the earth. The outer planets are gas giants jupiter and saturn and ice giants uranus and neptune. A planet hunting satellite has observed one of the hottest exoplanets yet discovered with surface temperatures so high they could turn metals to gas. Jupiter may be the undisputed king of the planets in the solar system but its record of 79 moons has just been smashed after the announcement of a stunning 20 new outer moons at saturn.

And that s not counting saturn s beautiful rings. Of these all are covered by a crust of ice except for earth s moon and io. The european space agency s esa characterising exoplanet satellite cheops spied the extreme exoplanet in question which is named wasp 189b some 326 light years away from earth. Technically the term natural satellite could refer to a planet orbiting a star or a dwarf galaxy orbiting a major galaxy but it is normally synonymous with moon and used to identify non artificial satellites of planets dwarf planets and minor planets.

The current count orbiting our star. Our constellations planet operates more than 150 satellites that together provide an unprecedented dataset of earth observation imagery. Saturn has 53 moons that have been named. A natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body which is called the primary.

Dwarf planets such as ceres pluto and eris and small solar system. Jupiter has the most natural satellites moons over 60. 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally rounded. During the formation of the solar system there were probably many more terrestrial planetesimals but most merged with or were ejected by the four terrestrial planets.

If all of these moons get confirmed saturn will have 82 moons. The inner rocky planets are mercury venus earth and mars. One of the most extreme planets in the universe wasp 189b the target of the cheops observations is an exoplanet orbiting the star hd 133112 one of the hottest stars known to have a planetary. There are around 3000 man made satellites currently in orbit.

Saturn also has 29 moons awaiting confirmation. There are more planets than stars in our galaxy. They re unconfirmed because we re waiting to get more information about them.