Saturn
Best known for its fabulous ring system, Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in our solar system.
Saturn is the most distant planet that can be seen with the naked eye. It is the fifth brightest object in the solar system and is also easily studied through binoculars or a small telescope.
Saturn Facts
- Equatorial Diameter: 120,536 km
- Polar Diameter: 108,728 km
- Mass: 5.68 × 10^26 kg (95 Earths)
- Moons: 82(Titan, Enceladus, Iapetus& Rhea))
- Rings: 30+ (7 Groups)
- Orbit Distance: 1,426,666,422 km (9.58 AU)
- Orbit Period: 10,756 days (29.5 years)
- Surface Temperature: -139°C;
- First Record: 8th century BC
- Recorded By: Assyrians