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7. Moons of small bodies
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The small bodies of our Solar System consist of: asteroids (rocky or carbonaceous objects that are mainly concentrated in the space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter); trans-Neptunian objects (icy bodies beyond Neptune’s orbit); comets (small icy bodies with strongly elliptical orbits that can come close to the Sun); and centaurs (asteroid-like bodies of dominantly icy rather than rocky composition, whose orbits lie beyond that of Jupiter, but inside Neptune’s). Of these, only comets are devoid of known moons. ‘Moons of small bodies’ describes some of the 165 asteroids known to have moons, as well as the moons of centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects, including the dwarf planet Pluto.
Title: 7. Moons of small bodies
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The small bodies of our Solar System consist of: asteroids (rocky or carbonaceous objects that are mainly concentrated in the space between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter); trans-Neptunian objects (icy bodies beyond Neptune’s orbit); comets (small icy bodies with strongly elliptical orbits that can come close to the Sun); and centaurs (asteroid-like bodies of dominantly icy rather than rocky composition, whose orbits lie beyond that of Jupiter, but inside Neptune’s).
Of these, only comets are devoid of known moons.
‘Moons of small bodies’ describes some of the 165 asteroids known to have moons, as well as the moons of centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects, including the dwarf planet Pluto.
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