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The main reason that Mercury has no moons is due to the giant living next door - the sun. The sun is so much larger than Mercury that its gravity completely overwhelms any pull that the little planet itself has, and any material that might have become a moon gets gobbled up by the sun instead. Mars, on the other hand, is farther away from the sun, and does not have that powerful gravitational pull affecting it as strongly. When the material that formed Phobos and Deimos came along, it was pulled in by Mars' gravity and took up orbit there.
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Does mercury have more moons than earth?
No. Mercury has no moons.
What are the names of the planets that have on moon?
No moons . . . Mercury and Venus One moon . . . Earth Two moons . . . Mars Each of the other planets has more than two moons. Jupiter leads with more than 60 !
How many more moons does Jupiter have than Mars?
Jupiter has 79 known moons, while Mars has 2. Therefore, Jupiter has 77 more moons than Mars.
What planet has 19 moons?
No planet has 19 moons as of June 2014. Earth has one moon and Mars has two. Mercury and Venus have no moons. The other planets all have more than 20 moons.
Which planet has more moons than the sun?
The planet mars has more moons than he sun
Name two other planets that have moons other than the earth.?
Mars, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus all have moons. Venus and Mercury do not have moons.
Only rocky planet to have more than one moon?
There are four terrestrial, or rocky, planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Of these planets, only Mars has two moons.
Which planets have moons and which do not?
All planets in our solar system except Mercury and Venus have moons. This means that Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have moons orbiting around them. Mercury and Venus are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have any moons.
Do all planets have the same number of moons?
No, not all planets have the same number of moons. For example, Mercury and Venus have no moons, Earth has one moon, Mars has two moons, while Jupiter has over 70 moons. The number of moons can vary from planet to planet.
What planet has more moons than earth or mars?
These planets have the following numbers of moons: Earth - 1 Mars - 2 Jupiter - 63 - 4 of these are known as the 'Galilean moons'; the largest of the planet's satellites discovered by Galileo Saturn - 61 Uranus - 27 - Interesting fact - all of Uranus' moons are named after Shakespearean characters Neptune - 13 Pluto (even though it is technically a dwarf planet) - 3 All of the planets in the solar system have moons except for Mercury and Venus. Earth has only 1 and Mars 2, so all of the planets that follow have more moons than Earth or Mars.
Which planets with only one moons?
In OUR solar system, Earth is the only planet with one moon. Mercury and Venus don't have any moons, Mars has two, and the rest of the planets have more. Jupiter is in the lead, with more than 60 moons, and more still being discovered .
Which planets have more than one moon?
Of the eight major planets, two have no moons (Mercury and Venus), while the other five besides Earth have more than one. * Mars has 2 (Phobos and Deimos). * Jupiter has more than 60 known moons. * Saturn has more than 60 known moons. * Uranus has 27 known moons. * Neptune has 13 known moons. Pluto, which in 2006 was reclassified as a "dwarf planet", has 3 moons, the major moon Charon and two smaller ones, Hydra and Nix.
