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<center>''Looking for the pool variant? See [[Moons (game)]].''</center> | <center>''Looking for the pool variant? See [[Moons (game)]].''</center> | ||
[[Image:Moon.jpg|thumb|Luna, Earth's moon.]] | |||
A '''moon''' is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called the ''primary''. The large gas giants of [[Sol]] have extensive systems of moons, including half a dozen comparable in size to [[Earth]]'s moon: the four Galilean moons, Saturn's Titan, and Neptune's Triton. Saturn has an additional six mid-sized moons massive enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, and Uranus has five. Of the inner planets, Mercury and Venus have no moons at all; Earth has one large moon ([[Luna]]); and [[Mars]] has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos. | A '''moon''' is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called the ''primary''. The large gas giants of [[Sol]] have extensive systems of moons, including half a dozen comparable in size to [[Earth]]'s moon: the four Galilean moons, Saturn's Titan, and Neptune's Triton. Saturn has an additional six mid-sized moons massive enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, and Uranus has five. Of the inner planets, Mercury and Venus have no moons at all; Earth has one large moon ([[Luna]]); and [[Mars]] has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos. | ||
[[Category:Moons| ]] | [[Category:Moons| ]] | ||