How many known moons are in the solar system?

Answer 1

The earth's diameter is 3.7 times the diameter of the moon.

The earth's surface area is 13.4 times the surface area of the moon.

The earth's volume is 48.9 times the volume of the moon.

The earth's mass is 81 times the mass of the moon.

Looks like the answer is 'no'.

Answer 2

No, the eart is a lot bigger than the moon, that is why the moon revolves around the earth. if the earth was smaller than the earth, the earth would be a moon of the moon, which wouldnt really be a moon anymore. other planets have multiple moons. some planets dont have any.

Answer 3

Yes. 10,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun and the moon is smaller than Earth. If the moon was bigger we wouldn't have daylight. The moon would cover the sun.

Yes, its true that sun is much larger than moon. If the size is concerned, then it can be said that since 13 lakhs earth is equivalent to one sun and moon is a satellite of earth, so definitely sun will be greater than moon......

Answer 4

Yes, though from Earth they appear to be about the same size. The sun and moon appear to be the same size but in actuality the sun is quite a bit larger. The diameter of the sun is about 864,900 miles and the moon is only 2,160 miles. The reason for the apparent size equality is due to the distance of each from the earth. The moon is much closer at 238,857 miles, while the sun is 93,000,000 miles away.

Answer 5

Nobody knows, or will know. There are about 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

If we assume (incorrectly) that each star has the same amount as moons as our Sun, then the total will be around 37,600,000,000,000 moons

Answer 6

The answer is unknown. In our solar system, Mercury and Venus have no moons. Earth has one natural satellite. Mars has two moons. Jupiter is known to have 64, and Saturn at least 60. Uranus has 27 and Neptune 13. The total number of moons in our solar system is therefore at least 167. The dwarf planet Pluto is accompanied by Charon, which is more of a coplanet than a moon, due to its relative size.

We have found over 100 solar systems beyond ours--stars with planets. We cannot yet detect moons about those planets. It is quite an achievement simply to confirm the existence of exoplanets (planets orbiting other suns).

Planets may be more common in spiral galaxies than in globular galaxies, which would reduce the number of moons. Still, to arrive at a "conservative" average, let's assume each star has planets with a total of 10 moons. Many may have no planets at all, but some (like ours) will have far more than that. Since there are 100 billion stars in our galaxy, that would suggest perhaps a trillion moons. As there are a hundred billion galaxies in the universe, the product would be a hundred billion trillion moons.

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 is one hundred octillion.

Answer 7

It depends which moon and which sun you are talking about. if you are talking about earth's moon and the solar systems sun, NO! the sun is many times bigger than the moon. All stars are actually suns, and most planets have many moons. It really depends which ones you are talking about.

It also depends on what you mean by "big". Physically larger or more massive ****************** The sun is actually 400 times larger than the moon, with a diameter of 865,000 miles as compared to the moon's 2,160 miles.

Answer 8

166 moons of planets:

Earth - 1

Mars - 2

Jupiter - 63

Saturn - 60

Uranus - 27

Neptune - 13

6 moons of dwarf planets dwarf planets: Pluto - 3 Haumea - 2 Eris - 1

Also, there are 104 asteroid moons and 58 satellites of Trans-Neptunian objects

Answer 9

Earth's Moon is larger than Pluto. The Moon's diameter is 3476 km while Pluto's is approximately 2,274 km.

Answer 10

7 Ganymede, Callisto, Titan, the Moon, Io, Europa and Triton.