List of Solar System objects


The following is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more.
The Solar System also contains:
  • Comets
  • *List of periodic comets
  • **Halley's Comet
  • *List of long-period comets
  • **Comet Hale-Bopp
  • *List of near-parabolic comets
  • Small objects, including:
  • *Meteoroids
  • *Interplanetary dust
  • *Helium focusing cone, around the Sun
  • *Human-made objects orbiting the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Saturn, including active artificial satellites and space junk
  • Heliosphere, a bubble in space produced by the solar wind
  • *Heliosheath
  • **Heliopause
  • **Hydrogen wall, a pile up of hydrogen from the interstellar medium