Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Planet Saturn

Saturn




Planet Order: 6th from the Sun (1-8 away from the Sun)
Distance From The Sun (km): 1.4 million km.
Mass: 5.69x10^26 kg.
Diameter: 120.536 km.
Rotation: 10 hours and 14 minutes.
Revolution: 34.821 km per hour.
Number of Moons: 60.
Jovian.


Planet Description (What is it like on this planet?):
Saturn is a planet that is similar to Jupiter but is a little bit smaller, but is the second largest planet in our Solar System after Jupiter. It is a gas giant planet. Saturn is the least dense planet in our Solar System and is made up of mostly hydrogen and helium.

2 Interesting Facts:
1.Saturn has seven rings orbiting around it and three main rings are called the A,B,C rings named by the astronomers who discovered them.
2.Sometime is easy to see the rings of Saturn if we use telescope, but sometimes they disappeared and this happened in 2008-2009 and it will happen again in 2024-2025.


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