2007-01-30 10:38:17 · 12 answers · asked by luceritaly 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Jeez - read this:
The sun is 99.9% of the Solar System. If you can't get your head around that, put another way, everything else - planets, moons, asteroids, comets, etc - are just one thousandth of the contents of the Solar System.
The sun is everything. All the other stuff including Earth are the debris left over from the formation of our star, the sun.
Say it over - the sun is a star, the sun is a star.
Everything else in its system orbits it. Moons' orbit some of the planets. The planets orbit the sun, and even the biggest planet, Jupiter, is less than a 1000th the size of the sun.
2007-01-30 10:53:39 · answer #1 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Moons are objects that orbit around planets. If something orbits the sun it could either be a planet, a dwarf planet, or something else like an asteroid or a comet. A dwarf planet is an object that is large enough to turn itself into a sphere because of its gravity but it is not large enough to be the dominant object in its orbit. Pluto is not a planet because it is not the dominant object since its orbit crosses that of neptune, which is larger. If an object the size of one of the moons were to orbit the sun, it would probably be a dwarf planet. In fact that is what Pluto is because it was probably a moon of Neptune at some point.
2007-01-30 10:54:38 · answer #2 · answered by xit_vono 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The definition of a moon is a small body orbiting a planet.
So the answer is the sun has planets but no moons.
2007-01-30 13:02:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the sun is a star, you won't find moons orbitting stars. On another note, the moon might burn up because it is REALLY close to the sun.
Plus, the sun isn't all that hot compared to other stars.
2007-01-30 10:57:17 · answer #4 · answered by JaxJagsFan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There is a difference betwen "moon" and "planet". Moons are the objects which orbit around planets, and planets are the objects which orbit around a star. And as our Sun is a star, it has planets.
But 8 planets are not the only objects which orbit the Sun. We also have planetiods, astroids, comets, etc.
2007-01-30 11:18:27 · answer #5 · answered by far away 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, and it can't.
Moons are defined as satellites of planets -- since the sun isn't a planet, it can't have any moons.
2007-01-30 10:56:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no but when you thnk about it the planets /their moons could be called the sun's moons
2007-01-30 10:43:56 · answer #7 · answered by .Frequently♥Dazzled. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no the sun is a star and moons arent around stars do to gravitational porpisis but it could be another star or a black dwarf
2007-01-30 11:07:34 · answer #8 · answered by llamasgomoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kinda both for we are a smaller body orbiting it but planets can't quite be considered a moon
2007-01-30 11:15:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, everything rotating about the sun is called a satilite
2007-01-30 10:45:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋