List of Solar System objects

Objects in the Solar System
By orbit By size By discovery date
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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 (Luna)
    • 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
      • 90482 Orcus
    • Twotino
    • Cubewanos (classical objects)
      • 50000 Quaoar
      • 20000 Varuna
      • 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, a comet?
  • 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.

See also

• List of moons
• Planetary rings