how many moons are there?

Answer 1

There are more stars than we can count. Most of them have planets. Most of those planets have moons.

Answer 2

There are many moons in our solar system. Almost all of its planets have moons. Earth has one moon. The large planet Jupiter has 12 moons but more were found recently. Mars has two known moons. Even small Pluto has a moon. Neptune, Uranus and Saturn also have moons that you can count to find out. This is only for our solar system, but there might be many other planets which have moons and that we do not know yet about. Good luck.

Answer 3

A whirlwind of "new moon" discoveries have kept teachers, textbooks, and web sites scrambling to keep up. In an effort to set the record straight, listed below are the number of known moons in our solar system as of July 2006.

Planet Number of Moons
Mercury 0
Venus 0
Earth 1
Mars 2
Jupiter 63
Saturn 56
Uranus 27
Neptune 13
Pluto 3
http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/compare_the_planets/moon_numbers.html

Answer 4

Probably an infinite number. Back when I was in school, the answer would have been 31: Earth (1) Mars (2) Jupiter (12) Saturn (9) Uranus (4) Neptune (2). With our deep space probes (Galileo, Voyager, Cassini, etc.) the number of moons in our Solar System has risen to 167 at last count. and of course our Sun is not alone in our galaxy in having planets, and these planets will almost certainly have moons. Then our galaxy is not alone in the universe.....you get the idea.

Answer 5

Let's base ths on our own solar system - ten planets with about 10 moons each.

There are 100 billion stars in the galaxy - about half are likely to have solar systems so that;s 50 billion, which gives 500 billion planets and 5 Trillion moons. (5x10^12)

There are about 100 billion galaxies give to take a magnitude so that would give

5x10^24 moons giv e or take - which is a lot.

Answer 6

I don't think that the answer to your question will be found in the near future but, according to the Scientific American magazine the "best"number for the existent stars is: 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ( the direct result of endless mathematical formulas) Half of them suppose to have planets so and .....where are planets there will be a lot of moons also. ( or, in the case of our solar system, we can say that the ratio planets/moons is 1/6 - for each planet there are approximately 6 moons. So, to make a guess, I'll "say" that there are about 210,000 billions of billions.....)

Answer 7

1 Earth moon.
Blue moon - Song
Alfie moon - Eastenders character
The late nanna moon - Eastenders character
moonlighting - 80's private eye drama with
Bruce willis & Cybil Sheppard.
moonstruck - film
Over the moon - term meaning over joyed.

Answer 8

the human race will never ever ever be able to explore the whole of space, as it is never ending. we will never know how many moons there are, or how many planets, or how many stars. hell, how do we know there isnt another sun out there somewhere?
we are ignorant if we think we will ever understand space, or that we are the only life out here. it's absurd.
so basically i don't know!

Answer 9

In the heavens uncountable, and it will be for a long, long time. On earth, there were 11 after every football game at Uni... less those who had gotten the red card!

Answer 10

as many moons as the natural satelites of every planet in the universe... so lots.