1. Saturn By: Brad Melvin

2. How Saturn got it’s Name!  Associated with a Greek god; Agriculture  Root of the English word Saturday

3. Discovery!  Galileo was first to observe it  Telescope

4. Planet Measures!  Mass: 5.68e26kg  Volume: 827,129,915,150,897km3  Density: 687.00kg/m3  Can float on water  Gravity: 0.7m/s2

5. Composition of the Atmosphere!  It is thin but made out of gases and ice chunks.

6. Distances!  Sixth planet from the sun  1,429,400,000km from the sun  1,200,000,000km from the earth.

7. Orbit and Rotation!  29 earth years for Saturn to orbit the sun  10.7 hours for Saturn to rotate on its axis

8. Temperature!  (-185°C, -290°F)

9. Appearance!  Gas Giant  Made of hydrogen, helium, ice and ammonia  Saturn is a Gas giant. It has a ring around it made of ice chunks. Saturn will also float on water.

10. Rings!  Made of ice chunks

11. Water on Saturn!  Water Vapor

12. Weather on Saturn!  Cold and windy

13. Moons!  Saturn has 60 known moons

14. If a human to go to Saturn  Choke in the atmosphere and freeze to death.

15. Cool Facts!  Jewel of the solar system  Can not stand on it.  Rings are not solid  Rings are huge but thin  Very windy on saturn

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