I've been reading the Uranus tread, and how scientist keep discovering more moons arond Uranus.

I am wondering how many known moons some of the other planets have? Where can I find those kind of updates?

What are they named? Have they been keeping the same naming scheme that was used in naming the other moons.

What I know, or think I know.

Mercury-0
Venus-0
Earth-1
Mars-2
Jupiter-More than 16--(The last number I saw in writing--I am sure that the number is much higher) All of the early discovered moons except one were named after the lovers of Zeus.
Saturn-At least 18--(The last number I saw in writing--I am sure that the number is much higher). The early discovered moons seems to be named after various ancient Gods.
Uranus-27 Moons named after characters in Shakespare and Pope's writing.
Neptune-8? Not sure what the moons are named after.
Pluto-1


If you know that any of my numbers are wrong, please correct me. I am sure that the numbers I have listed for Jupiter and Saturn are much much to small.

Thanks for your help.

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Try here

http://www.planetary.org/learn/solarsystem/moons.html

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Since Neptune was the god of the sea, the moons are named after lesser mythological beings (merpeople, sea nymphs) associated with the sea.

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

They've found so many moons of Jupiter, that I understand they now have to name them after the lovers of Julio Inglesias.....

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A question I have is when Casini gets to Saturn and starts to resolve the rings, at point will a ring particle no longer be considered a particle but a moon?

Scott Sheppard has pages a little more informative than the Planetary Society one:
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/

Good question. There's a touch of this issue already with Jupiter: Galileo reportedly photographed seven "rocks" near Amalthea in a flyby last year; the issue of whether or not to consider them satellites may not be confronted head-on since orbits couldn't be determined (at least as of the last I heard).[/url]