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List of solar system objects
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- List of solar system objects: By orbit—By mass—By radius—By name
- See also: Solar system
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
- Venus
- Earth
- Moon (Luna)
- Possible Kordylewski Cloud
- Near-Earth asteroids
- Earth-crosser asteroids
- Earth's quasi-satellites
- Moon (Luna)
- Mars
- 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 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's trojan asteroids
- Saturn
- Tethys
- Dione
- Rhea
- Titan
- Iapetus
- Enceladus
- Mimas
- Hyperion
- Complete list of Saturn's natural satellites
- Saturn's Trojan moons
- Rings of Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Triton
- Nereid
- Proteus
- Complete list of Neptune's natural satellites
- Neptune trojans
- Non-trojan minor planets
- Jupiter
- Trans-Neptunian objects beyond the orbit of Neptune
- Kuiper belt objects (KBOs)
- Pluto, a dwarf planet and plutino
- Plutinos
- Twotino
- Cubewanos (classical objects)
- Kuiper cliff, the abrupt end of the Kuiper Belt.
- Scattered disc objects
- Eris, a dwarf planet
- (84522) 2002 TC302
- 90377 Sedna (possibly inner Oort Cloud)
- Oort Cloud (hypothetical)
- Kuiper belt objects (KBOs)
The solar system also contains:
- Comets (icy bodies with eccentric orbits).
- 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.
- Heliosheath
- Natural satellite for a complete list of moons.
- Planetary rings
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| Sun • Heliosphere Heliosheath Heliopause Hydrogen wall |
Planets ☾ = moon(s) ∅ = rings |
Mercury | Venus | Earth ☾ | Mars ☾ | |
| Jupiter ☾ ∅ | Saturn ☾ ∅ | Uranus ☾ ∅ | Neptune ☾ ∅ | |||
| Dwarf planets | Ceres | Pluto ☾ | Eris ☾ | |||
| Small Solar System bodies |
Asteroids (minor planets) |
Groups and families: Vulcanoids · Near-Earth asteroids · Asteroid belt Jupiter Trojans · Centaurs · Neptune Trojans · Asteroid moons · Meteoroids |
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| See also the list of asteroids, and the meaning and pronunciation of asteroid names. | ||||||
| Trans- Neptunians |
Kuiper belt – Plutinos: Orcus · Ixion – Cubewanos: 2002 UX25 · Varuna · 1992 QB1 · 2002 TX300 · 2003 EL61 · Quaoar · 2005 FY9 · 2002 AW197 |
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| Scattered disc: 2002 TC302 · 2004 XR190 · Sedna | ||||||
| Comets | Lists of periodic and non-periodic comets · Damocloids · Oort cloud | |||||
| See also astronomical objects, the solar system's list of objects, sorted by radius or mass, and the Astronomy Portal | ||||||