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Jupiter has four large satellites, but they are not the four largest in the solar system.

Jupiter has the largest, 3rd, 4th, and 6th largest satellites.

Saturn has the 2nd largest and Earth has the 5th largest satellite.

(Naturally I mean "natural satellites", otherwise called moons.)

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