Moon (thing)

There are 159 discovered moons in the solar system. I am only counting natural satellites of planets. There are asteroids with “moons”, but they are not on this list. More moons are being discovered all the time, and names are intermittently assigned to those that have already been found but not properly named.

And here they are:

• Earth:
  • Luna / The Moon
• Mars:
  • Demos
  • Phobos
• Jupiter:
  • Metis
  • Adrastea
  • Amalthea
  • Thebe
  • Io
  • Europa
  • Ganymede
  • Callisto
  • Leda
  • Himalia
  • Lysisthea
  • Elara
  • Ananke
  • Carme
  • Pasiphae
  • Sinope
  • And recently discovered moons:
    • Themisto
    • Callirrhoe
    • Kalyke
    • Iocaste
    • Erinome
    • Harpalyke
    • Isonoe
    • Praxidike
    • Megaclite
    • Taygete
    • Chaldene
    • S/2001 J1
    • S/2001 J2
    • S/2001 J3
    • S/2001 J4
    • S/2001 J5
    • S/2001 J6
    • S/2001 J7
    • S/2001 J8
    • S/2001 J9
    • S/2001 J10
    • S/2001 J11
    • S/2002 J1
    • S/2003 J1
    • S/2003 J2
    • S/2003 J3
    • S/2003 J4
    • S/2003 J5
    • S/2003 J6
    • S/2003 J7
    • S/2003 J8
    • S/2003 J9
    • S/2003 J10
    • S/2003 J11
    • S/2003 J12
    • S/2003 J13
    • S/2003 J14
    • S/2003 J15
    • S/2003 J16
    • S/2003 J17
    • S/2003 J18
    • S/2003 J19
    • S/2003 J20
    • S/2003 J21
    • S/2003 J22
    • S/2003 J23
    • S/2003 J24
    • S/2003 J25
    • S/2003 J26
    • S/2003 J27
    • S/2003 J28
    • S/2003 J29
    • S/2003 J30
    • S/2003 J31
    • S/2003 J32
    • S/2003 J33
    • S/2003 J34
    • S/2003 J35
    • S/2003 J36
    • S/2003 J37
    • S/2003 J38
    • S/2003 J39
    • S/2003 J40
    • S/2003 J41
    • S/2003 J42
    • S/2003 J43
• Saturn:
  • Pan
  • Atlas
  • Prometheus
  • Pandora
  • Epimetheus
  • Janus
  • Mimas
  • Enceladus
  • Tethys
  • Telesto
  • Calypso
  • Dione
  • Helene
  • Rhea
  • Titan
  • Hyperion
  • Iapetus
  • Phoebe
  • And recently discovered minor moons:
    • S/2000 S 1
    • S/2000 S 2
    • S/2000 S 3
    • S/2000 S 4
    • S/2000 S 5
    • S/2000 S 6
    • S/2000 S 7
    • S/2000 S 8
    • S/2000 S 9
    • S/2000 S 10
    • S/2000 S 11
    • S/2000 S 12
• Uranus:
  • Cordelia
  • Ophelia
  • Bianca
  • Cressida
  • Desdemona
  • Juliet
  • Portia
  • Rosalind
  • Belinda
  • Puck
  • Miranda
  • Ariel
  • Umbriel
  • Titania
  • Oberon
  • Caliban
  • Stephano
  • Sycorax
  • Prospero
  • Setebos
  • And recently discovered:
    • S 2001 U1
    • S/2003 U 1
    • S/2003 U 2
• Neptune:
  • Naiad
  • Thallassa
  • Despina
  • Galatea
  • Larrisa
  • Proteus
  • Triton
  • Nereid
  • And recently discovered:
    • S/2002 N1
    • S/2002 N2
    • S/2002 N3
    • S/2002 N4
    • S/2003 N1
    • c02N4 - candidate moon, sighting has not been confirmed
• Pluto:
  • Charon
  • Nix
  • Hydra

If you notice that I have missed off any moons, please inform me.

Last updated: 23th June 2006.