NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of solar system objects

The Sun, a spectral class G2 star
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
  - Moon
- Mars
- Jupiter
  - Io
  - Europa
  - Ganymede
  - Callisto
  - complete list of Jupiter's natural satellites
- Saturn
  - Tethys
  - Dione
  - Rhea
  - Titan
  - Iapetus
  - complete list of Saturn's natural satellites
- Uranus
  - Ariel
  - Umbriel
  - Titania
  - Oberon
  - complete list of Uranus' natural satellites
- Neptune
  - Triton
  - complete list of Neptune's natural satellites
- Asteroid belt
  - 1 Ceres
  - 2 Pallas
  - 4 Vesta
- Kuiper Belt
  - Pluto
    - Charon
  - 50000 Quaoar
  - 20000 Varuna
- Oort cloud
  - 90377 Sedna

- See also natural satellite for a complete list of moons.
- See also planetary rings
Asteroids (smaller rocky bodies)
- The asteroids mostly lie in the main asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

- Asteroids also can have moons
- See also List of asteroids for a longer list of asteroids.
Comets (icy bodies with eccentric orbits)
- Centaur (planetoid)
- See also List of periodic comets
Trans-Neptunian objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, including
- Kuiper belt objects (KBOs), divided amongst

Small objects, including:
- Meteoroids
- Dust, including interstellar dust.
- Manmade objects orbiting Earth, including active artificial satellites and space junk

Solar system (1313 words)
	The remaining Kuiper belt objects are classified as Cubewanos in the main belt and scattered disk objects in the outer fringes.
	Small quantities of dust are present throughout the solar system and are responsible for the phenomenon of zodiacal light.
	The solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy, a spiral galaxy with a diameter of about 100,000 light years containing approximately 200 billion stars, of which our Sun is fairly typical.

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