Which planet has 16 moons?

Question

This question is on a 2nd graders worksheet.

Answer 1

It's possible that the information being used is old. We've been discovering many more moons over the last 30 years. The only one that is close to that is Neptune, with 13. But I'll bet this is based on very old data and they're looking for Saturn or Jupiter.

Here, I found this table. I'm sure NASA or the Planetary Society would have a similar one. Print that out, highlight the moons row, and send your kid back to school with it.

http://filer.case.edu/sjr16/jupiter.html

And if the teacher makes your kid feel bad about it, just tell me what school, and I will hunt her down and give her a very stern look!

Edit: Here's another look.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/index.cfm

NASA lists Jupiter as having 49 named moons plus 13 with provisional designations. Saturn has 52, with 8 more having the provisional designations.

Answer 2

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Officially, Pluto is no longer a planet. After years of debate scientists decided Pluto’s no longer a planet. (Aug. 2006.) The resolution The decision establishes three main categories of objects in our solar system. Planets: The eight worlds starting with Mercury and moving out to Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Dwarf planets: Pluto and any other round object that "has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, and is not a satellite." Small solar system bodies: All other objects orbiting the sun. Pluto and its moon Charon, which would both have been planets under the initial definition proposed Aug. 16, now get demoted because they are part of a sea of other objects that occupy the same region of space. Earth and the other eight large planets have, on the other hand, cleared broad swaths of space of any other large objects. "Pluto is a dwarf planet by the ... definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects," states the approved resolution. Dwarf planets are not planets under the definition, however.

Answer 3

I'm clearing up one of the answers. Saturn has the most moons not Jupiter. Also we are always finding planets so that this is not valid information.

Answer 4

None of the planets have 16 moons but Jupiter has the largest amount of moons and the answer is 11 moons

Answer 5

Jupiter has 16 moons.

Answer 6

possibly niburu, or { planet x }, our newest addition to our solar system, which will be crossing earths orbit in 2012

Answer 7

I think your teacher is refering to the old

JUPITER

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Jupiter

SATURN

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Saturn

Answer 8

after last nights Christmas party, EARTH DID!

Answer 9

either saturn or jupiter