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How many satellites orbit Mercury?

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Natural satellites? none.

Uranus - 27 known moons to date

Jupiter - 63 known moons to date

Saturn - 60 known moons to date

Mercury - 0

Mars - 2

Earth - 1

Neptune - 13 known moons to date

Pluto - 3 known moons to date

Venus - 0 None because Mercury has no moons/satellites at all.

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It has no natural satellites (moons).

Mercury is too close to the Sun to capture or keep any moons.

There is one NASA satellite orbiting Mercury: the MESSENGER spacecraft began mapping the planet in early 2013.

There are no moons nor satellites been sent to Mercury.

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Mercury has no satellites (moons) orbiting Mercury

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Mercury has no known natural satellites (moons) or man made satellites currently in orbit around it.

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Mercury actually has no known satellites. Jupiter has the most known satellites, with 67, of any planet in the Solar System.

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It has no known natural satelites (or moons) and currently has no man made satelites. We have sent probes there to map the surface in the past though.

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Mercury is in direct orbit around the sun, it has no known natural satellites, and is not in orbit around any.

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It has none.

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