List of solar system objects
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Below is a list of Solar system objects, divided based on distance from the Sun. Named objects have a diameter of 500km or more:
- The Sun, a spectral class G2 star
- The inner solar system and the terrestrial planets
- *Mercury
- **Mercury-crosser asteroids
- *Venus
- **Venus-crosser asteroids
- *Earth
- **Moon
- **Near-Earth asteroids
- **Earth-crosser asteroids
- *Mars
- **Deimos
- **Phobos
- **Mars-crosser asteroids
- *Asteroid belt and surrounds
- **Asteroids in the Main Asteroid Belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- ***1 Ceres
- ***2 Pallas
- ***3 Juno
- ***4 Vesta
- ***These number in the hundreds of thousands. See also List of noteworthy asteroids, List of asteroids, and a list by mass for longer lists of asteroids.
- **A number of smaller groups distinct from the Main Belt.
- **Asteroids can also have moons
- The outer solar system with the Giant planets, their satellites, trojan asteroids and some minor planets
- *Jupiter
- **Io
- **Europa
- **Ganymede
- **Callisto
- **complete list of Jupiter's natural satellites
- **Jupiter trojan asteroids
- *Saturn
- **Tethys
- **Dione
- **Rhea
- **Titan
- **Iapetus
- **Enceladus
- **Hyperion
- **complete list of Saturn's natural satellites
- **Rings of Saturn
- *Uranus
- **Ariel
- **Umbriel
- **Miranda
- **Titania
- **Oberon
- **complete list of Uranus' natural satellites
- *Neptune
- **Triton
- **Nereid
- **Proteus
- **complete list of Neptune's natural satellites
- **Neptune trojans
- *Non-trojan minor planets
- **Centaurs
- **Damocloids
- Trans-Neptunian objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, including:
- *Kuiper belt objects (KBOs), divided amongst:
- **Plutinos
- ***Pluto
- ****Charon
- ****complete list of Pluto's natural satellites
- ***90482 Orcus
- **Cubewanos (classical objects)
- ***50000 Quaoar
- ***20000 Varuna
- ***2003 EL61
- ***2005 FY9
- **Scattered disc objects
- ***2003 UB313
- *Possibly inner Oort cloud
- **90377 Sedna
- Comets (icy bodies with eccentric orbits). See also List of periodic comets
- Small objects, including:
- *Meteoroids
- *Dust, including interstellar dust.
- *Manmade objects orbiting the Sun, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Saturn including active artificial satellites and space junk
See also
- Natural satellite for a complete list of moons.
- Planetary rings
- List of solar system objects by mass
- List of solar system objects by radius
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