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Sunday, 27 March 2005

Saturn is named after the Roman god of agriculture. The day Saturday is also named after him.
The three objects in the solar system that are known to have nitrogen-dominated atmospheres are Earth, Saturn’s moon Titan and Neptune’s moon Triton.
Because of this rapid spin and its low-density interior, Saturn is noticeably flattened, top and bottom. Saturn is 10 percent fatter in the middle than at the poles.
Saturn is the second biggest planet, but it’s also the lightest planet. If there was a bathtub big enough to hold Saturn, it would float in the water! Its density is only 0.13 that of Earth. (That’s because Earth is made of rocks and stuff, and Saturn is pretty much just gas.)
Driving at 75 miles per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn’s rings.
Saturns rings are very wide: 150,000 miles in diameter. But very thin: only a few hundred yards thick.
Because of the tilt of Saturn and the thinness of the rings, every 14 years the rings look like they’ve disappeared when viewed through a small or medium sized telescope.

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