how many moons around venus?
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Neith is the name given to an object first sighted by Giovanni Cassini, which he believed to be a moon of Venus. It has since been determined that no such moon exists.\n\nIn 1672, Giovanni Cassini found a small object close to Venus. He did not take great note of his observation, but, when he saw it again in 1686, he made a formal announcement of a possible moon of Venus.\n\nThe object was seen by many other astronomers over a large period of time: by James Short in 1740, by Andreas Mayer in 1759, by Joseph Louis Lagrange in 1761, eighteen observations in 1761, including one in which a small spot was seen following Venus while Venus was in transit across the Sun, eight observations in 1764, and by Christian Horrebow in 1768.\n\nMany astronomers, however, failed to find any moon during their observations of Venus, including the great William Herschel in 1768.\n\nCassini originally observed the Neith to be one-fourth the diameter of Venus. In 1761, Lagrange announced that Neith's orbital plane was perpendicular to the ecliptic. In 1777, J.H. Lambert estimated its orbital period as eleven days and three hours.\n\nIn 1766, the director of the Vienna observatory speculated that the observations of the moon were optical illusions: the bright image of Venus, he said, was reflected in the eye and back into the telescope, creating a smaller secondary image.\n\nIn 1884, M. Hozeau, the former director of the Royal Observatory of Brussels suggested that the "moon" was actually a planet which orbited the Sun every 283 days. Such a planet would be in conjunction with Venus every 1080 days, which fit with the recorded observations. Hozeau was also the first to give the object the name Neith, after an Egyptian goddess.\n\nThe Belgian Academy of Sciences published a paper which studied each reported sighting of Neith in 1887. Ultimately, they determined that most of the sightings could be explained by stars which had been in the vicinity of Venus, including Chi Orionis, M Tauri, 71 Orionis, Nu Geminorum and Theta Librae.
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Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
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No, Venus has no moon. But the two answerers above don't get any credit for sensitivity. Many amateur astronomers who love to teach others about the universe, do not chastise people for not knowing the universe. It's just how people are. Some know things...others need to learn. That's why Yahoo! Answers exists...to help people learn. So be a good teacher & help people learn. You don't have to brag about your superior abilities...& worse, berate people. Carry on....let everybody learn!
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Dude, you are being uber lazy...\n\nif I type in "interesting facts about venus" into Google the first page it comes up with is\n\nhttp://www.mixed-plate.com/SPACE/VENUS/facts.html\n\nread it..
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The closest moon of Jupiter is Io (Pronounced Eye-Oh).  It is covered with active volcanoes
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Jupiter has 63 moons or "natural satellites" ... http://www.answers.com/jupiter's%20moons\n\nThey have ALL been named ...\n\nThe Voyager 1 mission discovered three inner moons in 1979, bringing the total then known to 16 (17 if one counted Themisto, which had been found but then lost in 1975). The total rested there until 1999. Since then, researchers using sensitive ground-based detectors have recovered Themisto and found a further 46 tiny moons in long, eccentric, generally retrograde orbits. They average 3 kilometres in diameter, and the largest is barely 9 km across. All of these moons are thought to be captured asteroidal or perhaps cometary bodies, possibly fragmented into several pieces, but very little is actually known about them. The total number of known moons of Jupiter now stands at 63, currently the most of any planet in the solar system. Many additional tiny moons may exist that have not yet been discovered.
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How many moons does Saturn have? There you go- good question.
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50 moons are currently confirmed, 34 of which have names. The precise figure will never be certain as the orbiting chunks of ice in Saturn's rings are all technically moons, and it is difficult to draw a distinction between a large ring particle and a tiny moon. Saturn's most noteworthy moon is Titan, the only moon in the solar system to have a dense atmosphere.\n\nThis website for confirmation and more info -->http://www.planetary.org/saturn/moons.html\n\nGod is spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G\nPBrax@netscape.com
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mercury, mars, earth, and venus
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Right now it's Venus. Try skyandtelescope.com for questions like that.
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A satellite is the moon of a planet.
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A day on Venus is longer than a year because it spins the other way.\nSaturn has rings, and so does Jupiter and other giants!\nMars sometime seems to be going backward in the sky!\nUranus spins on its side (the same pole always points to the Sun)\nMercuray and Venus have no moon, and Jupiter and Saturn have new ones being discovered all the time.\nPluto is no longer a planet because it's too small and its orbit is too oval.
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No, that is only the *shortest* distance between them-when they are exactly lined up on the same side of the sun.  The maximum distance, which occurs with the exact same frequency as the closest, is when Earth and Venus are on  opposite sides of the sun, which is 1.723 AU.  The average distance would be somewhere between those two values, or about 1 AU, or 150 million km.  Think about the fact that Earth and Venus both rotate around the sun at different speeds-sometimes they are on opposite sides, far apart, and sometimes on the same side, close together..the important consideration is that they have different orbital times, so they don't stay close together any longer than they stay far apart.
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Saturn has 31 known moons.
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Yeah it has 63 moons orbiting around it
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Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus. Venus has a lot of gas on it, but it actually has a inner core and crust just like the earth does. Pluto is thought to be either an astroid or comet caught by the suns gravity. Something else that's cool is Neptune and Uranus both have rings around them just like Saturn does.