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Fact File: Saturn

  • Equatorial Diameter: 120,536 km

  • Polar Diameter: 108,728 km

  • Mass: 5.68 × 10^26 kg (95 Earths)

  • Moons: 62 (Titan, Enceladus, Iapetus & Rhea)

  • Rings:  30+ (7 Groups)

  • Orbit Distance: 1,426,666,422 km (9.54 AU)

  • Orbit Period: 10,756 days (29.5 years)

  • Effective Temperature:  -178 °C

  • First Record:  8th century BC

  • Radius: 36,184 mi

  • Surface area: 42.70 billion km²

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  • Saturn is the only planet that can float.

  • Saturn completes a rotation around every 10 and 1/2 hours

  • Because of all the materials, chemicals and compounds that make up Saturn, it has the lowest density of all the planets.

  • Saturn has auroras, just like those on Earth!

  • 4 space crafts have visited Saturn.

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