List of solar system objects: By orbit—By mass—By radius—By name—By surface gravity
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 solar system also contains:
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
Earth
- Moon (Luna)
- Possible Kordylewski Cloud
Near-Earth asteroids
Earth-crosser asteroids
- Earth's quasi-satellites
Mars
- Deimos
Phobos
Mars trojans
Mars-crosser asteroids
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
- 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
- Kuiper belt objects (KBOs)
- Pluto, a dwarf planet and plutino
- Charon
Nix
Hydra
Plutinos
- 90482 Orcus
Twotino
Cubewanos (classical objects)
- 50000 Quaoar
20000 Varuna
(136108) 2003 EL61
(136472) 2005 FY9
Kuiper cliff, the abrupt end of the Kuiper Belt.
Scattered disc objects
- Eris, a dwarf planet
- Dysnomia
(84522) 2002 TC302
90377 Sedna (possibly inner Oort Cloud)
Oort Cloud (hypothetical)
Comets (icy bodies with eccentric orbits).
- List of periodic comets
List of non-periodic comets
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.
- Heliopause
- Heliosheath
- Helium Focusing Cone, around the Sun.
- Meteoroids
- List of periodic comets
- Dysnomia
- Eris, a dwarf planet
- 50000 Quaoar
- 90482 Orcus
- Charon
- Pluto, a dwarf planet and plutino
- Kuiper belt objects (KBOs)
- Centaurs
- Triton
- Ariel
- Tethys
- Io
- Jupiter
- Pallas
- Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt
- Deimos
- Earth's quasi-satellites
- Possible Kordylewski Cloud
- Moon (Luna)
- Venus' quasi-satellite
- Venus-crosser asteroids
- Mercury-crosser asteroids
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