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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
- Venus
- Earth
- Mars
- Asteroids in the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
- Ceres, a dwarf planet
- Vesta
- Pallas
- Hygiea
- Europa (asteroid)
- Interamnia
- Davida
- Sylvia
- Asteroids number in the hundreds of thousands. For longer lists, see list of exceptional asteroids, list of asteroids, or list of Solar System objects by size.
- 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
- Saturn
- Rings of Saturn
- Complete list of Saturn's natural satellites
- Saturn trojan (2019 UO14)
- Saturn-crossing minor planets
- Uranus
- Rings of Uranus
- Complete list of Uranus's natural satellites
- Uranus trojan (2011 QF99)
- Uranus-crossing minor planets
- Neptune
- Non-trojan minor planets
- Trans-Neptunian objects (beyond the orbit of Neptune)
- Kuiper-belt objects (KBOs)
- Scattered-disc objects
- Detached objects
- (612911) 2004 XR190
- 2017 OF201
- 2012 VP113 (possibly inner Oort cloud)
- Sedna, a dwarf planet (possibly inner Oort cloud)
- Oort cloud (hypothetical)
The Solar System also contains:
- Comets
- Small objects, including:
- Meteoroids
- Interplanetary dust
- Helium focusing cone, around the Sun
- Human-made objects orbiting the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, 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
- Heliosheath
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- Euler diagram of solar system bodies.svg by SounderBruce (translated version), Ariel Provost (French version), Tahc (original version), CC BY-SA 3.0
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