List of Solar System objects facts for kids
This is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, by 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
- Mercury-crosser asteroids
- Venus
- Venus-crosser asteroids
- Venus' quasi-satellite
- Venus-crosser asteroids
- Earth
- Moon (Luna)
- Possible Kordylewski Cloud
- Near-Earth asteroids
- Earth-crosser asteroids
- Earth's quasi-satellites
- Moon (Luna)
- Mars
- Asteroid belt and surroundings
- Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
- Asteroids in the Main Asteroid Belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- A number of smaller groups distinct from the Main Belt.
- Asteroid moons
- Mercury
- The middle Solar System with the giant planets, their satellites, trojan asteroids and some minor planets
- Jupiter
- Complete list of Jupiter's moons
- Io
- Europa
- Ganymede
- Callisto
- Jupiter's trojan asteroids
- Saturn
- Rings of Saturn
- Complete list of Saturn's moons
- Mimas
- Enceladus
- Tethys
- Dione
- Saturn's Trojan moons
- Rhea
- Titan
- Hyperion
- Iapetus
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Complete list of Neptune's natural satellites
- Proteus
- Triton
- Nereid
- 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 quick end of the Kuiper Belt.
- Scattered disc objects
- Eris, a dwarf planet
- (84522) 2002 TC302
- 90377 Sedna (possibly inner Oort Cloud)
- 2000 OO67 comet?
- 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
- Heliosphere, a bubble in space produced by the solar wind.
- Heliosheath
- Heliopause
- Hydrogen wall, a pile up of hydrogen from the interstellar medium.
- Heliosheath
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