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1 Saturn By: Chumani wayd

2 About Saturn In roman Saturn is the god of agriculture. The associated Greek god, Cronus , was the son of Uranus and Gaia and the father of Zeus (Jupiter). Saturn is the root of the English word "Saturday"

3 More about it Diameter is 120,536 Distance from the sun 1,429,400,000
Mass 5.68e26 rings are extraordinarily thin: though they're 250,000 km or more in diameter they're less than one km thick. Temperature -178 degrees celsius

4 More about it Surface: consists of liquid and gas.
Rotation of its axis: 10 hrs, 40 min, 24 sec Rotation around the sun: 29.5 earth years

5 What it’s made of about 75% hydrogen 25% helium
traces of water, methane, ammonia and "rock",

6 When it was discovered Saturn was first visited by NASA's Pioneer 11 in 1979 and later by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Cassini arrived on July 1, 2004 and will orbit Saturn for at least four years.

7 Names of Saturn's rings D-Ring Guerin Division C-Ring Maxwell Division
B-Ring Cassini Division

8 More names Huygens Gap A-Ring Encke Minima Encke Division Keeler Gap
F-Ring G-Ring E-Ring

9 moons It has at least 30 moons. Titan Hyperion Mimas Enceladus Rhea
Phoebe

10 Work cited

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