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Which planet has the largest number of known satellites?

a. Earth
b. Saturn
c. Uranus
d. Jupiter

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Solution

The correct answer is option (d).

Explanation: Almost all planets have satellites, but the numbers of those satellites vary from planet to planet. Jupiter has the largest number of satellites. It has 39 known moons.

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are known as the ______ planets.

Statement 1: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are known as inner planets. They have less number of moons or no moons.

Statement 2: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are known as outer planets. They have large number of moons and all have a ring system around them.

Q. Match the entries in column I with Column II.

Planets	Number of Moons
(a) Uranus	(i) 1
(b) Saturn	(ii) 79
(c) Jupiter	(iii) 62
(d) Earth	(iv) 27

Q. Astronomy The table shows the mass of the planets, the sum and the moon in our solar system.

Celestial Body	Mass $(k g)$	Mass $(k g)$ Standard Notation
Sun	$1, 990, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$	$1.99 \times 10^{30}$
Mercury	$330, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$
Venus	$4, 870, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$
Earth	$5, 970, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$
Mars	$642, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$
Jupiter	$1, 900, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$
Saturn	$568, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$
Uranus	$86, 800, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$
Neptune	$102, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$
Pluto	$12, 700, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$
Moon	$73, 500, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000$

Which planet has about the same mass as earth?

Q. Arrange Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter in the increasing order of their masses.

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