which planet has the most moons? what determines how many moon a planet has?

Answer 1

There's no good answer to that question because there's no official threshold for how big something has to be to be a moon. You could consider every grain of sand around Saturn to be a moon and there would be trillions.
Nothing really determines how many moons a planet has other than size and chance. Bigger planets do tend to have more moons.

Answer 2

Jupiter is the planet with the most moons in our solar system. The number of moons determines how many moons a planet has.

Answer 3

Depends on what your definition of a moon is.

Jupiter has the most spherical moons (true moons, as some would say) of the planets. It has 27 moons total, if I remember correctly, most discovered by the Voyager and Pioneer probes as they did their flyby's. Saturn, on the other hand, has 57 moons, and millions of smaller particles forming the rings. Saturn is the winner when you consider the non-spherical moons in it's orbit.

Answer 4

Jupiter.
I'd assume the location of the planet as well as it's mass determines how many moons.
The bigger the mass, the more gravity to pull objects closer to it.
Considering that Jupiter is near the astroid belt, sometime before the belt's formation, im sure a few bigger rocks drifted towards the planet as a result.

Answer 5

Jupiter has the most moons. The moons are observed through telescopes and by cameras aboard space vehicles.

Answer 6

Jupiter. And your second part of the question is ridiculously stupid. However many it has is how many it has, there's no "well, the gravitational pull of the planet means that it has 4 moons, not 3". It's just count. 1,2,3,4.

Answer 7

With the way they are discovering new things--who really knows for sure.