SaturnBy: Brad Melvin

How Saturn got it’s Name!

Associated with a Greek god; Agriculture

Root of the English word Saturday

Discovery!

Galileo was first to observe it

Telescope

Planet Measures!

Mass: 5.68e26kg

Volume: 827,129,915,150,897km3

Density: 687.00kg/m3

Can float on water

Gravity: 0.7m/s2

Composition of the Atmosphere!

It is thin but made out of gases and ice chunks.

Distances!

Sixth planet from the sun

1,429,400,000km from the sun

1,200,000,000km from the earth.

Orbit and Rotation!

29 earth years for Saturn to orbit the sun

10.7 hours for Saturn to rotate on its axis

Temperature!

(-185°C, -290°F)

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.

Rings!

Made of ice chunks

Water on Saturn!

Water Vapor

Weather on Saturn!

Cold and windy

Moons!

Saturn has 60 known moons

If a human to go to Saturn

Choke in the atmosphere and freeze to death.

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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