Why Venus and Mercury have no Moons?

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Mercury and Venus have no moons because of their close proximity to the Sun. Any moon orbiting around them is likely be swallowed by the mammoth gravitational pull of the mighty Sun.
All planets except for Mercury and Venus have moons. In fact, Earth is the only planet to have just one moon; remaining planets from Mars onward have multiple moons, with Saturn having as much as 82 moons! So when most of the planets are inundated moons, why do Venus and Mercury have no moons?
The moonlessness of Venus and Mercury is mostly attributed to their proximity to the sun. Being so close to the sun means that they’re not only exposed to a lot of hostile solar radiation, but also experience the intense gravitational pull of the massive star nearby. For Mercury, the planet is simply too close to the Sun and also too small to have any sustainable gravitational influence to secure a moon in orbit. As for Venus, its slow retrograde rotation makes it challenging for any moon to stay in its orbit.
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@tonypuga2502 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine that Mercury was the satellite of Venus

@Bluegamesishere 3 жыл бұрын

If mercury was a tiny bit smaller that could happen

@Afganistan952 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@polyhedron6834 3 жыл бұрын

Then murcury ended up being the second biggest moon

@Bluegamesishere 3 жыл бұрын

@@polyhedron6834 like the same size as io

@iamfromindia4971 3 жыл бұрын

No mercury is the moon of the sun

@kalyanibhagwat7263 3 жыл бұрын

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@tzaralexander9574 3 жыл бұрын

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@ophadamia2579 3 жыл бұрын

Venus lost its moon due to a large asteroid hit her.

@terraformedmars3555 3 жыл бұрын

Venus' past moon was MERCURY!!! ;)

@MercuryCanon 11 ай бұрын

Did you just call Venus a her?

@user-rv6cx3rz7t 8 ай бұрын

@@terraformedmars3555no

@Pupptart69lolz 8 ай бұрын

venus is an object, not something with a gender

@monkied.8766 2 ай бұрын

@@Pupptart69lolzi mean you could technically call her a her cause of greek mythology it doesn’t matter

@DeskScientiam 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! One thing though, even if any object, say, our moon, is formed from accretion then why are there different sections like the core, mantle, crust of moon etc.?? And, what determines the size of hill sphere? Thanks! And if the case of Mars' Moons is because they are asteroids, so, when meteors pass through the Earth, then why doesn't it make it a moon??

@sajinajay6617 3 жыл бұрын

Core, mantle and crust of the moon are formed because of gravity just like every other planets.

@TheBlueCreeper- 2 жыл бұрын

The crust, mantle, and core are formed naturally by the gravitational pull the object exerts on itself. If the object is big enough, it's internal pressure exerted by it's own gravity will cause its interior to be like this. Pressure eventually melts materials (mantle) and then superheat them and in some cases, even turning them into solids again (core). The Crust is product of the materials contact with the colder temperatures of outer space, and the atmosphere is the gases the object manages to attract (which if its too small, the gravity won't be enough to attract gas.)

@TheBlueCreeper- 2 жыл бұрын

And the hillsphere is determined by the force of gravity of an object, plus it's distance from another gravitational force.

@malaysahitya8154 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice video bro

@alivcor 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Please make a video on black holes and hawking radiation.

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@alivcor 3 жыл бұрын

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@jaideepkamath 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, what are the odds that mercury was once the moon of venus torn apart by sun?🤔

@ILOVERESISTANCE 3 жыл бұрын

What if Mercury was Venus moon and somehow got threw away from its orbit and started rotating the sun?

@terraformedmars3555 3 жыл бұрын

Thats because it did launch and started orbiting the sun ;)

@terraformedmars3555 3 жыл бұрын

New term: rouge moon!

@shylock5477 2 жыл бұрын

Whoever threw them out of orbit needs the naughty corner

@thecreekcraft3326 2 жыл бұрын

@@shylock5477 It probably happend due to the 5th gas giant being ejected there was a 5th gas giant but it was ejected due to a dangerous encounter with juipter and that ruined all the dwarf planets orbits and Mercury was no longer Venus moon

@shylock5477 2 жыл бұрын

@@thecreekcraft3326 tf are you on about? And why on earth did you @ me.. of all people?

@guru0503p 3 жыл бұрын

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@reedr7142 5 ай бұрын

I’ve heard of an accretion disc in regards to a black hole. Will those accretion discs cause a coalescence?

@TimeMaster1976 Жыл бұрын

I bet if Venus suddenly had a moon similar to ours, it would be habitable in 10 years.

@iamsheel 5 ай бұрын

No planet changes that quickly

@josemanuelmamanichavez6311 2 жыл бұрын

Beatiful. I loved.

@jjtheyoutuber7341 11 ай бұрын

Venus does have moons, it has 2, like Mars does. There were nearby asteroids that were considered possible moons since they orbit Venus.

@RockSimmer-gal4God 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if the hear affects moons or lack of moons

@fep_ptcp883 2 жыл бұрын

None of the 4 inner planets formed a moon by accretion. Mars captured two, Earth had a collision

@FewVidsJustComments 3 жыл бұрын

Pluto has 5 moons btw.

@TheBlueCreeper- 2 жыл бұрын

But despite being smaller than mercury (and the moon) it is so far away from the Sun that it has better chances at getting moons which in its case theyre all captured Kuiper belt objects. (Fun fact: if you didn't know Pluto and Charon are actually a binary dwarf-planet system. Kinda like binary stars. Pluto and Charon orbit each other; and with their combined gravity, they exert a stronger gravitational pull on their moons. That's why they have four) (another fun fact: Neptune's moon Triton is a captured dwarf planet. In fact, Triton would be the largest dwarf planet if it wasn't for the fact that it orbits Neptune.)

@FewVidsJustComments 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBlueCreeper- Eris is the largest dwarf planet currently though, being only slightly smaller than the smallest planet in the solar system, Pluto. And before you say “Pluto isn’t a planet”, wasn’t the main issue that started that whole debate in the first place the fact that they thought eris was larger than Pluto?

@harisasad9908 3 жыл бұрын

I agree that mercury is too close to the sun causing it to have no moon but the point that mercury is "too small" to have a moon dazzles me. Pluto for example is a drawf planet. it is far away from the sun without a doubt but it has a moon 1/4 its size. it also has a bigger hill sphere which does make sense but the size of an object does not affect if it has a moon or not.

@ThePeterDislikeShow 3 жыл бұрын

Then how do our satellites stay at mercury and venus? Wouldn't the same principles of Hill's Sphere apply?

@itsalily_lei_lei 3 жыл бұрын

Moons have greater mass than artificial satellites. Mass attracts mass, and more mass attracts more mass.

@oceanweatherandmapping9414 2 жыл бұрын

Plutos moons formed from Collision

@fep_ptcp883 2 жыл бұрын

Artificial satellites can maneuver to correct their course

@Likeanimationbox Ай бұрын

Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus,and Neptune had 95,146,28,and 16 moons

@RIOT690 2 жыл бұрын

Let's make Venus and Mercury buddies

@konaakhtrr25 3 жыл бұрын

We can have the (TIME MACHINE) ideas

@tk40gamingjunior Жыл бұрын

Imagine if mercury is Venus’s moon

@kukulaarohi9850 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot

@Scienceabc 2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome 🙂

@mertc8050 2 жыл бұрын

Venus can have a moon and keep it easily since the video already showed that its hill sphere was close to earth's in size the problem retrograde rotation or basicaly if the planet is rotating slower then the moon's orbital period it will stael that moon's kinetic energy and make the planet spin faster and venus is not just slow it rotates backwards so even if it had a moon its impossible for it to stay in orbit and no it wouldn't fly off into sun's orbit if it did we would find it anyway it would fall straight down into venus form a ring which will rain on the planet so its NOT the sun thats making venus moonless its its rotation but for mercury sun plays a bigger role in this and also rotation is very slow again so no moon

@veronicamiranda9233 Жыл бұрын

Some people say that Mercury used me Venus's Moon.

@JP-jd5su Жыл бұрын

how does neptune have a greater hill sphere than saturn and why is it a hill SPHERE

@aadityabarai7040 Жыл бұрын

Best video ever

@dalailama9132 3 жыл бұрын

That is WHY VENUS HAS NO LIFE BECAUSE IT HAS NO MOONS

@ITSMEREDDIT 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@KadeoAVvalentine 2 жыл бұрын

Saturn has 150 moons and Jupiter has 106 moons now

@dezpotizmOFheaven 9 ай бұрын

They are to close to the sun - sun ripped away anything that was about to orbit Mercury and Venus, and also not enough bodies came far enough to have one that made it to stay with them.

@NeostormXLMAX Жыл бұрын

but isn't uranus's rotation completely vertical? why does uranus have many moons?

@brizzle3903 Жыл бұрын

Uranus’s tilt is about 98 degrees on its axis, if we could see Uranus orbit around the sun it would look like a ball rolling on its side Like the other gas giant planets Uranus had the gravitational force to grab up the remaining debris hence why they have so many moons compare to Earth and Mars

@macaronii8318 Жыл бұрын

I am so immature

@threeadventurouskids5199 2 жыл бұрын

Why are planets circle?

@Babygirl2814 2 жыл бұрын

Venus had moon that crushes him

@thescientist3709 3 жыл бұрын

Hey buddy..!😀

@burtmaclinfbi3993 8 ай бұрын

It’s a shame that The Moon doesn’t have any moons.

@Kokos144 Жыл бұрын

Neith = Venus moon: Am i a joke to you?

@LayanAraimiOman 6 ай бұрын

Imagine mercury and venus is moonless and mercury and venus have no moons :(

@Harsxo10 Жыл бұрын

I think axis isn't important... The gravity it is because moon still orbit a planet even its slow rotation... There's theory of Venus might have moon considered as mercury it got pulled towards the sun due to the immense gravitational pull... because of that the interaction of the gravity between mercury and venus it changed the axis of Venus...instead going to the right it rotate left🙆

@Amiri_Francis 2 жыл бұрын

Here a theory Mercury was once the moon of Venus billions of years ago but then the sun pulled mercury out of its orbit with Venus and mercury became its own planet

@atomicplanets8226 2 жыл бұрын

Mercury is Venus'moon and it always will be Venus' moon.

@bladeroakofficialchannel 3 жыл бұрын

Venus in past already have moon but it got crash by asteroid and it moon get destroyed.

@Bluegamesishere 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't it crash into Venus Due to gravitational pull?

@majorhowell1453 Жыл бұрын

I say four TUGGED but nobody wants to have that conversation..

@alierenkaya6548 9 ай бұрын

in irl there is moons of venus but those moons are called "possible moons"

@ninjapirate123 2 ай бұрын

what about pluto

@BakeCake2972 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact of why they have no moons:because it’s just a 1 planet

@salamahmedtheadventurebeta4866 Жыл бұрын

If Venus has A Moon It Would Be Menus or Voon

@Pduarte79 4 ай бұрын

Jupiter and Saturn stole them, lol.

@Melvorgazh Жыл бұрын

God knows how many moons orbiting Mercury and Venus have vanished into the sun. Could Mercury have been a moon of Venus ?

@michaellorde8404 Жыл бұрын

Even pluto got a moon

@rogerpresron7360 3 жыл бұрын

venus is really danguros

@lukeplayz4473 3 жыл бұрын

Then how did Pluto get a moon

@itsalily_lei_lei 3 жыл бұрын

The binary dwarf planet system of Pluto and Charon was formed together from the rock, ice, nitrogen, and methane. The other moons are captured TNOs.

@guluzo3763 2 жыл бұрын

I need my own moon 🥺

@user-ox8wj9sw1x 3 ай бұрын

2002VE Has Left The Chat.

@estrellapalarpalar9473 11 ай бұрын

Did you know that mars moons are formed from a collision

@javiercessani.9648 2 жыл бұрын

Venus esta atrayendo la luna hacia el.

@tobymurray.740 Жыл бұрын

In actuality, Mercury is not a planet but the moon to Venus.

@Robloxplayerguy829 13 күн бұрын

But zoozve is venus mooni know

@fourgedmushrooms5958 10 ай бұрын

Gravity of the Sun?

@Reign_Of_Is_REAL 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe they’re moons and not planets 🤷🏽‍♀️🤔

@Unitedstatesofamerica1803 Жыл бұрын

I have 83 moons

@elaineteh2847 2 жыл бұрын

Venus Has A Moon But Lost Because Venus Collided With An Object Forming A Moon Then Later Collided Another Object With Change Its Motion And Rotation. Then The Strong Gravity Of Venus Pulls Its Moon Into itself. Then That Moon Collided With Venus.

@interpenny 2 жыл бұрын

Yes mercury looks like or moon soon its venus moon only 1 satellite

@Bruh-ir9jc 3 жыл бұрын

No i have a moon

@Mr.doomsday9000 3 жыл бұрын

Because venus is too small to satellite moons it's had to be big enough to have moons But mercury is small too of course they don't have moons

@iliketurtles50000 2 жыл бұрын

Mars is smaller than venus but it still has moons

@atomicplanets8226 2 жыл бұрын

Venus' size is similar to Earth's and Earth has a moon. Consider that Mercury is Venus' moon.

@ShannonCarter55 Жыл бұрын

@@atomicplanets8226 mercury was larger before a collision and evidence suggests it actually came from beyond Mars until it got hit. Mercury's core is way too large for the planet. So no, it doesn't look like mercury was a moon.

@Loneranger235 2 жыл бұрын

It's because Mercury and venus are the moon for the sun

@Zero10945 3 жыл бұрын

@atomicplanets8226 2 жыл бұрын

Actually, Mercury is Venus' moon. All planets have moons just as all nucleii have electrons.

@beenwashedup5754 2 жыл бұрын

Our moon here sucks

@rikifukushima9855 Жыл бұрын

No moons? 🤨

@andresemil8306 Жыл бұрын

The sun

@thecakeisalie1885 3 жыл бұрын

Venus had a moon u know mercury but took by sun

@shylock5477 2 жыл бұрын

Distortion 😈

@riteshpandey8586 3 жыл бұрын

Yaa you are right Because drwaf palents like pluto makemake or vesta have moons even sedna have moons So why not Murcury Answer: thanks to sun🙃

@DarkXsule39 Жыл бұрын

Because Mercury separated from Venus, Mercury is a moon that belonged to Venus. Mercury is not a planet in the moon.

@theearth2358 3 жыл бұрын

I had a moon but collided with me 3.4 billion years ago

@jester11273 Жыл бұрын

That was a planet not a moon

@arindammukerji1133 2 жыл бұрын

Mercury and Venus please send a request to Sun to return u r Moons €€€€

@nerissamingala6107 3 ай бұрын

Mercury and Venus are also a no moon

@E-286-interminable.40 Жыл бұрын

And Ceres MakeMake doesn’t haves moons

@unknowngirl2098 Жыл бұрын

Mercury and Venus doesn’t had moon 🌙 because mercury and Venus are close to the sun 🌞 And mercury and Venus can’t hold they own moon 🌙

@Samplays_real 2 жыл бұрын

Mercury is a moon

@shadow-vf7uv 3 жыл бұрын

Mercury used to be a moon of Venus

@shadow-vf7uv 3 жыл бұрын

Earth a 2 means but not one because the other another collision of the moon

@itsmethemannn679 3 жыл бұрын

There's a fact. Did you know Mercury used to be Venuses moon.

@terraformedmars3555 3 жыл бұрын

I did know that ;)

@ExiledNeptunium 2 жыл бұрын

yeah, that's not true mr. OC kid.

@shylock5477 2 жыл бұрын

@@ExiledNeptunium mercury is both sun and moon (androgynous)?

@ExiledNeptunium 2 жыл бұрын

@@shylock5477 i don't know what you mean by that

@shylock5477 2 жыл бұрын

@@ExiledNeptunium oh okay I thought you knew what is true..

@ceegee5335 6 ай бұрын

You rhymed lol

@MrPillowStudios 2 жыл бұрын

Mercury was the moon of Venus when it was habitible.

@abdullahamin1077 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Mercury is a rouge moon because it the moon of venus

@Afganistan952 3 жыл бұрын

i transform to a moon of venus my mom

@terraformedmars3555 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine kids and moms as planets and moons...the kids are the moons and the moms are the planets....kids basically orbit their moms

@terraformedmars3555 3 жыл бұрын

Venus was not the rouge moon. Earth was not the rouge moon. Mars was not the rouge moon. Jupiter was the failed star. Saturn was not the rouge moon. Uranus was not the rouge moon. Neptune was not the rouge moon. Dun dun duuuun! Mercury was the rouge moon. Victory.

@MrPillowStudios 2 жыл бұрын

And Pluto is not a planet.