1. SATURN BY CAROLINE CRAMER

2. SYMBOL AND NAME Saturn is named for the Roman god of Agriculture. In English Saturn means Saturday

3. DISCOVERY Galileo observed Saturn in 1610 In 1659 Christian Huygens figured out the geometry of the rings. Visited by NASA in 1979

4. MEASUREMENTS Distance from the sun (9.54 AU) Distance from earth (8.54 AU) Mass: 5.6832 times 10 26 Kg Volume: 8.2713 times 10 14 Km 3 Density: 0.687 g/cm 3

5. ORBIT AND ROTATION Orbit the sun: 10,759 days Rotate on it’s axis: 10 hours 13 minutes

6. GRAVITY AND ATMOSPHERE Would Saturn float or sink in water? Saturn would float, if there was enough water, because it is made of mostly gas and it is less dense then water. Saturn’s gravity is 91% of earth’s gravity Saturn has a thick atmosphere Made mainly of hydrogen and helium

7. COMPOSITION AND APPEARANCE Saturn is a gas giant which means that it does not have a solid surface. Internal composition: rocks and ice Appearance: Large, grey/orange, Large circling rings.

8. RINGS Made of chunks of rock and ice 7 thin rings (169,800 miles wide, 0.62 thin) Grey, blue, and greenish Each ring orbits at a different speed In 1659 Christiaan Huygens discovered the rings

9. WATER There are small chunks of water and ice in the atmosphere. In 2010 and 2011 a storm churned water and ice up from within the thick atmosphere

10. MOONS 53 moons Titan is a well known moon The others are Atlas, Calypso, Dione, Enceladus, Hyperion, Iapetus, Janus, Mimas, Phobe, Tethys

11. WEATHER Cool temperatures (minus 288 degrees Fahrenheit) Every saturn year (equivalent to 30 Earth years) an enormous storm is produced known as the great white spots First observation of these storms was in 1876

12. WHAT IF YOU TRAVELED TO SATURN? Saturn can not support life You would not be able to walk because Saturn is made of gas. You would freeze because of the cold temperatures You would suffocate because there is no oxygen

13. COOL FACTS If Saturn was the size of a basketball, earth would be a nickel Saturn spins so quickly on its axis that the planet flattens itself out into an oblate spheroid. (it looks flat) Saturn is the least dense planet in the Solar System

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