The solar system

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Saturn


Saturn is the 5th planet from the sun. It is most distinguishable by its golden rings. These rings are made of dust, rocks, and ice. Saturn is also distinguishable by it very low density of 0.69g/cm3. If you could find a bathtub as big a Saturn and filled it with water, then Saturn would float! It is the same problem as Jupiter; it is not very dense, but very big in volume. You could fit roughly 750 Earths inside of it. Saturn has more than 60 satellites orbiting it. You wouldn’t know if it was day or night because there would always be a moon in sight. Saturn has one of the fastest days, only 11 hours. It year is a lot slower though, it would take 29 Earth years for Saturn to revolve around the sun. It has a core of rock about the size of Earth and the rest is hydrogen and helium. Saturn is named after the roman titan Saturn and most of its moons are named after titans also. Saturn is a great planet that many like to study.

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