Jupiter has 64. Saturn is smaller, but still has 60 moons. I'm not certain there should actually be any theoretical lower limit. A big gas giant with moons carefully arranged--I should think potentially a thousand...
The Moon is not a gas giant. Gas giant planets are planets like Jupiter and Saturn which have no solid surface, and are completely covered with high pressure gas. The Moon is a rocky, "terrestrial" body.
It's mainly because they are much bigger and so have more gravity to attract material to form moons. For example, Jupiter (the biggest gas giant) has more than 300 times the mass of Earth (the biggest of the terrestrial planets in our solar system).
When the solar system was forming around 4.5 billion years ago, Jupiter (which has 63 moons at last count) had more capability to attract and keep material around it that eventually formed moons, compared to the Earth. This capability was only strengthened by the fact that Jupiter (and the other gas giants) were further away from the Sun than Earth (and the other terrestrial planets) and so the gravitional "competition" with the Sun was less for Jupiter's moons than Earth's moon.
They're called the gas giants because
1) They are made mostly of frozen gas and
2) Their size is due to the nature of gas, whose molecules are not as closely packed together as rocks or metals.
They are called gas giants because they are all very large. Some more than five times the size of earth
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Because it is made of gas and in comparison to the inner planets (Earth included) it is a giant.
The Earth has only 1 natural moon - not many moons.
If you are referring to artificial satellites, then they were all sent by humans for different purposes.
No. The moon is a rocky natural satellite far smaller than a gas giant.
Jupiter:64 moons
Saturn:62 moons
Uranus:27 moons
Neptune:13 moons
A sentence for gas giants is: There are four gas giants in the solar system, which are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus. Another sentence is: The gas giants are mainly composed of various different gases.
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gas.
gas giants
Most famously, it was voyager 1 and 2 that explored these outer gas planets and have given us so much information. Other probes have been sent to these gas giants, but these are the the probes that visited all four gas giants between them.
Gas giants are called as such because they are generally the largest type of planet, and they consist mostly if not entirely of gases.
Gas giants.
The four outer, or gas planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They are mainly made up of Hydrogen and Helium gas. They are also much larger than the Earth or the other three inner planets, so are referred to as gas giants.
The planets are made out of gas.
They are called gas giants, actually. They are called that, because they have a very thick atmosphere and the core is so deep below the 'surface' of the atmosphere that we cannot see the core.
The Ice Giants.
Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus are all gas giants.
Gases. Hence the name, "Gas Giants"
which of the gas giants are made of frozen gas
In order, from closest to furthest from the sun, the gas giants are: 1. Jupiter 2. Saturn 3. Uranus 4. Neptune
The Gas Giants are mostly made up of gas.
no they are made of gas. which is why they are called GAS giants