List of Solar System Objects

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
      • Mercury-crosser asteroids
    • Venus
      • Venus-crosser asteroids
        • 2002 VE68, Venus's quasi-satellite
    • Earth
      • Moon
      • Near-Earth asteroids (including 99942 Apophis)
      • Earth trojan (2010 TK7)
      • Earth-crosser asteroids
        • Earth's quasi-satellites
    • Mars
      • Deimos
      • Phobos
      • Mars trojans
      • Mars-crosser asteroids
    • 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 notable asteroids, list of asteroids, or list of objects by mass.
        • 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
      • Rings of Jupiter
      • Complete list of Jupiter's natural satellites
        • Io
        • Europa
        • Ganymede
        • Callisto
      • Jupiter's trojan asteroids
    • Saturn
      • Rings of Saturn
      • Complete list of Saturn's natural satellites
        • Mimas
        • Enceladus
        • Tethys
        • Dione
        • Rhea
          • Rings of Rhea
        • Titan
        • Iapetus
        • Saturn's trojan moons
    • Uranus
      • Rings of Uranus
      • Complete list of Uranus' natural satellites
        • Miranda
        • Ariel
        • Umbriel
        • Titania
        • Oberon
    • Neptune
      • Rings of Neptune
      • Complete list of Neptune's natural satellites
        • Proteus
        • Triton
        • Nereid
      • Neptune trojans
    • Non-trojan minor planets
      • Centaurs
      • Damocloids
  • Trans-Neptunian objects beyond the orbit of Neptune
    • Kuiper-belt objects (KBOs)
      • Plutinos
        • Pluto, a dwarf planet
          • Charon
          • Nix
          • Hydra
          • S/2011 P 1
          • S/2012 P 1
        • 90482 Orcus
      • Twotinos
      • Cubewanos (classical objects)
        • 50000 Quaoar
        • 20000 Varuna
        • 120347 Salacia
        • (307261) 2002 MS4
        • Haumea, a dwarf planet
          • Namaka
          • Hi'iaka
        • Makemake, a dwarf planet
    • Scattered-disc objects
      • Eris, a dwarf planet
        • Dysnomia
      • (225088) 2007 OR10
      • (84522) 2002 TC302
      • (87269) 2000 OO67
    • Detached object
      • 90377 Sedna (possibly inner Oort Cloud)
    • Oort Cloud (hypothetical)
      • Hills cloud/Inner Oort cloud
      • Outer Oort cloud

The Solar System also contains:

  • Comets (icy bodies with eccentric orbits)
    • List of periodic comets
    • List of non-periodic comets
  • Small objects, including:
    • Meteoroids
    • Dust, including interstellar dust
      • Helium Focusing Cone, around the Sun
    • Manmade 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

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