Saturn
The ringed gas giant.
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with a radius about nine times Earth's and over 95 times Earth's mass, yet only an eighth of its average density.
It orbits the Sun every 29.45 years. Its bright ring system is mostly ice, and at least 293 moons orbit it, the largest being Titan.
Quick Facts
- Synodic period
- 378.09 days
- Satellites
- 293 with formal designations; innumerable additional moonlets.
- Flattening
- 0.09796
- Surface gravity
- 10.44 m/s2
- Moment of inertia factor
- 0.22
- Rotation
- 10 h 32 m 36 s; 10.5433 hours
- Axial tilt
- 26.73° (to orbit)
- Declination
- 83.537°
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