Saturn (thing)

The 6th planet from the Sun in our solar system and known for its amazing rings.


Picture:

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Stats:

Mass: 5.69 x 10²⁶ kg
Density: 706 kg/cm³
Diameter: 120660 km
Gravity relative to Earth: 1.159
Length of day: 10.2 Earth hours
Length of year: 29.46 Earth years
Mean temperature: 88 K
Orbital velocity: 9.64 km/s
Ring diameter: 270000 km

Moons:
Saturn has 18 named satellites:

Atlas
Calypso
Dione
Enceladus
Epimetheus
Helene
Hyperion
Iapetus
Janus
Mimas
Pan
Pandora
Phoebe
Prometheus
Rhea
Telesto
Tethys
Titan

6 new irregular moons were discovered in October 2000, which are temporarily designated:
S/2000 S 1
S/2000 S 2
S/2000 S 3
S/2000 S 4
S/2000 S 5
S/2000 S 6

and 4 more irregular moons were discovered in December 2000, which are temporarily designated:
S/2000 S 7
S/2000 S 8
S/2000 S 9
S/2000 S 10

Thank you NASA and bigmouth strikes.

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In Roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture. His Greek name is Cronus.

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Saturn is also the name of a Sega game system and a car company.