Planet-satellite system
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A Planet-satellite system is a system consisting of a planet, dwarf planet or double planet, its natural satellites, rings, and other orbiting objects. The most complicated planet-satellite systems in the Solar system include the Jovian system, Saturnian system and Uranian system.
Comparison of planet-satellite systems in the Solar System:
| Key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrestrial planet system | Gas giant system | Trans-Neptunian system | |||
| System name | Number of known satellites | Rings | Total area (km2×106)[1] |
Number of spacecrafts currently operating in the system |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercurian system | 0 | No | 75 | 0 (1 en route) |
| Venusian system | 0 | No | 460 | 1 |
| Terran system | 1 | No | 548 | hundreds |
| Martian system | 2 | No | 115 | 6 |
| Cererean system | 0 | No | 3 | 0 |
| Jovian system | 63 | Yes, faint | 233 | 0 |
| Saturnian system | 56 | Yes | 105 | 1 |
| Uranian system | 27 | Yes, faint | 24 | 0 |
| Neptunian system | 13 | Yes, faint | 23 | 0 |
| Plutonian system | 3 | No | 23 | 0 (1 en route) |
| Eridian system | 1 | No | 18 | 0 |
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Combined surface area of all objects in the system that have a solid surface and exceed 900 km in diameter.
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