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The Planet Saturn

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Beyond the mighty Jupiter lies the second biggest planet of the Solar System — Saturn. Also a gas giant world, Saturn has an equatorial diameter of 120 000km and a mass of 95 times that of the Earth. The average density of Saturn is a mere 700kg/m3, less dense than water! Saturn moves through the Solar System at a mean distance of 1400 million km from the Sun, taking 29½ years to complete one orbit.

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© 1988 Gerald North

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North, G. (1988). The Planet Saturn. In: Mastering Astronomy. Macmillan Mastering Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19604-3_10

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