A Cool Question
From Stephen, Grade 6: "How many moons does each planet have and what are their names?"
One Possible Answer:
From Stephen, Grade six and my reference is "The Firefly Space Encyclopedia:
In order from the sun:
- Earth: 1 moon (the Moon)
- Mercury: 0
- Venus: 0
- Mars: 2(Phobos and Deimos)
- Jupiter:16 (Metis, Adrastea, Amaltea, Thebe, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
, Leda, Himalia, Lysithia, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasiphae, and Sinope)
- Saturn: 18(Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus,
Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Phoebe)
- Uranus: 17(Oberon, Titania, Umbriel, Ariel, Miranda, Puck, Belinda, Rosalind,
Portia, Juliet, Desdemona, Cressida, Bianca, Ophelia, Cordelia, and two others)
- Neptune:8(Thalassa, Maiad, Despina, Galatea, Larissa, Proteus, Triton, and Nereid)
- Pluto:1(Charon)
Other questions:
- How far away are the moons from their planet?
- What is each planet's and each moon's distance from the Sun?
- Why do different planets have different number of moons?
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