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The average number of moons per planet in our solar system is approximately 2. The eight planets in our solar system have a wide range of moon counts, with some having none (like Mercury and Venus) and others having dozens (like Jupiter and Saturn). When you calculate the total number of moons in the solar system and divide by the number of planets, you get an average of around 2 moons per planet.

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The average number of moons per planet in our solar system is roughly 2. moons, but this can vary significantly from planet to planet. For example, Saturn has the most moons with 82, while Mercury and Venus have none.

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12y ago

There are 167 known moons around the eight planets of our Solar System. Therefore the average number of moons per planet is 167/8 which gives 20.875 moons.

The question is obviously about our Solar System, not exomoons, nor the whole universe.

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16y ago

It's rather hard to average this out, as the numbers vary greatly, but here is a list of how many satellitesper planet ("moon" is the name of Earth's natural orbital satellite).

Mercury - 0

Venus - 0

Earth - 1

Mars - 2

Jupiter - 49

Saturn - 52

Uranus - 27

Neptune - 13

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