Ramesh Singh's video: Moons Size Comparison Natural Satellites in The Solar System

Natural satellite or moon is a celestial object that orbits a planet or minor planet under the influence of their gravity. On the 7th of January 1610, Italian astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei discovered the first space object orbiting Jupiter. It was the first celestial body found to be orbiting another planet instead of the earth. In few days three more similar objects were discovered orbiting Jupiter. These objects including Earth’s moon were called planets at that time but later termed satellite by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Till now a total of 205 natural satellites have been discovered orbiting planets excluding mercury and venus. The majority of these moons are under the gravitational influence of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn which have at least 79 and 82 moons at their disposal. Outermost ice giants planets Neptune and Uranus hold 14 and 27 moons respectively. Rocky planets have only 3 moons, two small moons of Mars, and one large Moon of the Earth. Pluto, now categorized as a dwarf planet has got 5 moons up its sleeves. Other Dwarf and minor planets such as Haumea, Eris, Makemake, Orcus also have their own moon. Moons are also found orbiting asteroids that are small and called moonlets. Chapters: 0:00 Moons Size Comparison 5:46 About Moons 8:22 Pluto Moons 9:38 Quaoar, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Orcus Moons 13:33 Prograde and Retrograde Orbit ____________________________________________________________ Everything in the video is created from scratch by Ramesh Singh (owner of the channel) Audio Used: Time Passing By by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ ___________________________________________________________ About the channel: This channel contains advanced educational videos related to science and technology.