Season Of Planet With The Most Moons In Our Solar System Special Edition. Of these 72 have confirmed orbits and 52 have been named. As one of the outermost moons nereid can be as close as 841 100 km away and as far out as 5 980 200 km away during its extreme elongated elliptical orbit.
Jupiter has 79 moons. Moons come in many shapes sizes and types. Eight of jupiter s moons are regular satellites with 4 large spherical moons and 4 smaller moons that orbit closer to jupiter.
Seven are larger than pluto and eris.
Neptune s moon proteus is on the edge they are shown here to scale with each other. Saturn and jupiter have the most moons with dozens orbiting each of the two giant planets. As one of the outermost moons nereid can be as close as 841 100 km away and as far out as 5 980 200 km away during its extreme elongated elliptical orbit. Neptune s nereid possesses the most eccentric orbit of any moon in our solar system taking 360 earth days to orbit the planet.
