james@umcp-cs.UUCP (12/15/83)
Please post as complete a list as you can come up with off the top of your head of planets of our solar system together with the number and names of their moons. If you can think of famous asteroids, throw them in as well. Thanks. --Jim
spam@eneevax.UUCP (12/17/83)
Planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, Neptune Moons: Luna, Phobos, Deimos, Japetus, Europa, Io, Ganymede, Titan Asteroid: Ceres
rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (12/19/83)
Dispensing with the major satellites (the so-called nine planets), I'll
get right to the others. Mercury and Venus have no known natural satellites,
and you probably know of Terra's large satellite Luna. Mars has Phobos and
Deimos, Jupiter's Galilean satellites are Io, Europa, Callisto, and
Ganymede. Saturn has Titan, Iapetus, Enceladus, Tethys, Mimas, Rhea,
Hyperion, and Janus. Oh, let's not forget Dione and Phoebe! (These are just
the popularly named ones, not the ones indexed by year of discovery, of
course). Uranus has (with a nod to the Bard) Ariel and Umbriel, Titania,
Oberon, and Miranda. Neptune has Nereid and Triton. Pluto has Charon.
As for major asteroids (major minor planets?), the biggest is of course
Ceres. Juno, Pallas, and Vesta are the next three largest known, I think.
I don't remember the names of very many others, but Icarus does come to
mind.
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