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Does anyone know how many moons are there in Solar system at present?

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I think it is lots more than that wikipedia gave me around 240 including moons orbiting smaller solar system bodies like asteroids etc.

If we restrict ourselves to planets then the current list would look like this:

Mercury: 0

Venus: 0

Earth: 1 + [1] (Cruithne is a small asteroid that interacts gravitationally with the Earth, but is not a true satellite, at least in the conventional sense. See, for example - http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/second_moon_991029.html)

Mars: 2

Jupiter: 63 (Difficult to keep up to date with discoveries here. The NASA site currently lists 63: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/joviansatfact.html.)

Saturn: 48 + 12 (There are a dozen unconfirmed moons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_moons. )

Uranus: 27 (See, http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Uranus&Display=Moons)

Neptune: 13 (See, http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Neptune&Display=Moons)

Pluto: 1 (Unless you want to consider Pluto-Charon a double planet.)

 

That runs between 155 and 168.

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