Saturn
By Dylan, Max and Kyle HOPE YOU ENJOY
How Saturn got its awesome name
Saturns name comes from Roman god. Saturn is the god of agriculture and Rome myths.
How Saturn Got Its colour
Saturns colour is orange, dusk, yellow and light brown. Saturns colour of its rings are yellowish and brownish.
Saturns size
Saturns exact ideal size is 120,900 including its rings. Saturn's rings are closest to Saturn's normal size.
Saturns Rings, Moons and special stuff
Saturn has 5+ rings and 20+ moons all of its moons are called Titan, Enceladus, Dione, Mimas, Rhea, Lapetus, Tethys, Hyperion, Pandora, Phoebe, Prometheus, atlas, Janus, Epimetheus, Calypso, Helene, Methone, Pan, Polydecues, Ymir, Telesto, and others
Saturns Temperature is
Saturn is cold day and night
With an average temperature of minus 288 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 178 degrees Celsius), Saturn is a pretty cool planet. Although there are some small differences as one travels from the equator to the poles, much of Saturn's temperature variation is horizontal. This is because most of the planet's heat comes from its interior, rather than from the sun.
Saturns time lapse
Saturns time is at least 12 hours a day and 100+ days a year. 35 days a month 120+ hours a month
Saturns distance from the sun & orbiting the sun
Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun orbiting the sun is It takes Saturn 29.45 years (or 10,759 days) to orbit the sun Saturn is lots of kilometres from the sun want to know 1,424 million kilometres away no one knows exactly how many kilometres away.
Interesting facts about Saturn
Saturn is the 2nd largest planet and has the most moons it has 32 moons Titan is the biggest moon and was actually named by a Titan how funny the others were named by Saturn's planet name creator Saturn is a big ball of gas which means if you were old enough to fly in moon you would fly straight through them same as Jupiter but Saturn is the 2nd largest so you wouldn't have the biggest variety to fly through it Saturn's rings are made out of Saturn's rings are made of billions of pieces of ice, dust and rocks. Some of these particles are as small as a grain of salt, while others are as big as houses. These chucks of rock and ice are thought to be pieces of comets, asteroids or even moons which were torn apart by the strong gravity of Saturn before they could reach the planet.
Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn Look closer through space (No authors) Saturn: Interesting Facts (Forgot the author) The Magic School Bus Lost In The Solar System by (Joanna Cole) The Solar System by (Jeannie Bendick)
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