Astronomy:List of Solar System objects
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Euler diagram showing the types of bodies orbiting the Sun
The following is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more.
- The Sun, a spectral class G2V main-sequence star
- The inner Solar System and the terrestrial planets
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
- Moon
- Near-Earth asteroids (including 99942 Apophis)
- Earth trojan (2010 TK7)
- Earth-crosser asteroids
- Earth's quasi-satellites
- Mars
- Asteroids in the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- Ceres, a dwarf planet
- Pallas
- Vesta
- Hygiea
- Asteroids number in the hundreds of thousands. For longer lists, see list of exceptional asteroids, list of asteroids, or list of Solar System objects by size.
- Asteroid moons
- A number of smaller groups distinct from the asteroid belt
- The outer Solar System with the giant planets, their satellites, trojan asteroids and some minor planets
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Rings of Saturn
- Complete list of Saturn's natural satellites
- Shepherd moons
- Saturn-crossing minor planets
- Uranus
- Rings of Uranus
- Complete list of Uranus's natural satellites
- Uranus trojan (2011 QF99)
- Uranus-crossing minor planets
- Neptune
- Non-trojan minor planets
- Centaurs
- Damocloids
- Trans-Neptunian objects (beyond the orbit of Neptune)
- Kuiper-belt objects (KBOs)
- Plutinos
- Pluto, a dwarf planet
- Complete list of Pluto's natural satellites
- 90482 Orcus
- Pluto, a dwarf planet
- Twotinos
- Cubewanos (classical objects)
- Haumea, a dwarf planet
- Namaka
- Hiʻiaka
- Makemake, a dwarf planet
- 50000 Quaoar
- Weywot
- (307261) 2002 MS4
- 120347 Salacia
- 20000 Varuna
- Haumea, a dwarf planet
- Plutinos
- Scattered-disc objects
- Detached objects
- 2004 XR190
- 90377 Sedna (possibly inner Oort cloud)
- 2012 VP113 (possibly inner Oort cloud)
- Oort cloud (hypothetical)
- Hills cloud/inner Oort cloud
- Outer Oort cloud
- Kuiper-belt objects (KBOs)
The Solar System also contains:
- Comets
- List of periodic comets
- List of near-parabolic comets
- Small objects, including:
- Meteoroids
- Interplanetary dust
- Helium focusing cone, around the Sun
- Human-made objects orbiting the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Saturn, including active artificial satellites and space junk
- Heliosphere, a bubble in space produced by the solar wind
- Heliosheath
- Heliopause
- Hydrogen wall, a pile up of hydrogen from the interstellar medium
- Heliosheath
See also
- Outline of the Solar System
- Lists of astronomical objects
- List of natural satellites
- List of Solar System objects by size
- List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun
- Ring system
- Solar System models
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