1. Saturn
By: Maryellen

2. Saturn: Name
The name Saturn comes from the Roman god Saturn. The Greek form of Saturn is Cronus (also spelled Kronos). Cronus was the Greek god of agriculture and time.

3. Saturn: Position, Distance, and Orbit
Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun. It orbits 888 million miles away from the sun. It orbit’s is not unusual.

4. Saturn: Rotation on its Axis
It takes Saturn 10 hours and 14 minutes for Saturn to rotate once on it’s axis.

5. Saturn: Size
Saturn is the 2nd largest planet in our solar system. Saturn’s mass is ×1026 KG.

6. Saturn: Gravity
Saturn has 91% of Earth’s gravity so a person who weighs 100 lbs. on Earth would weigh 91 lbs. on Saturn.

7. Saturn: Orbit
It takes Saturn 10,759 days to orbit the sun.

8. Saturn: Atmosphere Saturn’s atmosphere is…. 96.3% hydrogen
3.25% helium
With traces of ammonia, acetylene, ethane, methane, and phosphine.

9. Saturn: Temperature
Saturn’s average temperature is about *F.

10. Saturn: Composition
Saturn is a gas giant that is made up of liquid metallic, hydrogen, and many kinds of ices.

11. Saturn: Moons
Saturn has 61 moons, more than any other planet in our solar system except Jupiter.
Some of it’s moons are Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Pandora, Janus, Telesto, Calypso, Titan, and Rhea.

12. Saturn: Rings
Saturn’s rings have 7 distinct sections and are made mostly of ice. They were found in 1610 but in 1610 they thought that it was just that Saturn was triple bodied. They later found out that Saturn wasn’t triple bodied it just had rings.

13. Saturn: How would a human being fare on Saturn?
If a human were to go to Saturn they would freeze. They would freeze because Saturn is very far away from the sun so its temperatures are very low.

14. Saturn: Discovery
The first observation was made by Galileo in 1610,he thought that Saturn was triple bodied but what he really saw was Saturn’s rings.

15. Saturn: Extra Facts
Saturn gets only 1% of the sunlight that Earth receives.
Winds blow up to 1,100 mph.
Titan (one of Saturn’s moons) is bigger then Mercury and Pluto.
Also referred to as the “Jewel of the Solar System”
The only planet with a density less than water.