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[[File:Moon.jpg|thumb|Luna, Earth's only natural satellite, often simply called "the Moon".]]

A '''natural satellite''', more commonly referred to as 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. Jupiter has more than sixty moons, of which only four are colonized. Those moons are called [[Jovian Moons]]. 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.

==Notable moons==

*[[Earth]]

**[[Luna]]

*[[Eridanus II]]

**[[Ehilend]]

*[[Jupiter]] ([[Jovian Moons]])

**[[Wikipedia:Callisto|Callisto]]

**[[Ganymede]]

**[[Wikipedia:Europa|Europa]]

**[[Wikipedia:Io|Io]]

*[[Threshold]]

**[[Basis]]

*[[Reach]]

**[[Csodaszarvas]]

**[[Turul]]

*[[Te]]

**[[Rantu]]

**[[Uhtua]]

*[[Doisac]]

**[[Solrapt]]

**[[Teash]]

**[[Warial]]

*[[Unidentified moon|Unidentified moon ''(Blood Line)'']]

*[[Unidentified moon (Headhunters)|Unidentified moon ''(Headhunters)'']]

File:HaloReach - ReachMoons.png|Csodaszarvas and Turul, the two natural satellites of [[Reach]].

File:Ganymede.jpg|Ganymede, one of [[Jupiter]]'s moons.