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SOLAR SYSTEM/
MATH ILP
SATURN
By Sydney Spear
Grade: 3
Teacher: Mrs. Milligan
SIZE OF SATURN
• Saturn’s size is 75,000 miles wide.
• Saturn’s mass is 95 times that of Earth.
DISTANCE FROM THE SUN
• Saturn’s distance from the sun is 888 million
miles.
WEATHER
• Saturn is so cold people could not breathe
or live on Saturn.
• It can get to -285 degrees Fahrenheit.
• There are 1000 mile per hour wind speeds
on Saturn.
• Storms on Saturn can last months or even
years.
ATMOSPHERE / LANDSCAPE
• Saturn is a big ball of gas (gas giant). It has a
rock core, gaseous outside that is kept in
place by gravity, and has rings made of dusty
ice chunks.
NEIGHBORING PLANETS
• Saturn’s neighbors are Jupiter and Uranus.
DAY LENGTH
• A day on Earth is 24 hours.
• A day on Saturn is 10 hours 39 minutes.
YEAR LENGTH
• Saturn’s year length is 29 earth years.
HOW MANY MOONS?
• So far, 62 moons have been discovered in
orbits around Saturn, and 53 of them have
been officially named.
COMPARING NUMBER OF
MOONS
Number of Moons
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Number of Moons
COMPARING MY WEIGHT ON EARTH
TO MY WEIGHT ON OTHER PLANETS
• If you were on other planets, you
would weigh a different amount than
you do on Earth. The weight that you
feel depends on many things, including
your actual mass, the mass of the
planet you're on, and how far away you
are from the center of that planet.
• To see what I weighed on other
planets I had to multiply my weight of
56 pounds on Earth by the
gravitational pull or gravitation factor
relative to Earth of other planets.
MY WEIGHT ON OTHER
PLANETS
• Mercury: 56 x 0.38 = 21.28 pounds
• Venus:
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56 x 0.91 = 50.96 pounds
Mars:
56 x 0.38 = 21.28 pounds
Jupiter: 56 x 2.54 =142.24 pounds
Saturn: 56 x 1.08 = 60.48 pounds
Uranus: 56 x 0.91 = 50.96 pounds
Neptune: 56 x 1.19 = 66.64 pounds
MY WEIGHT ON OTHER
PLANETS
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
My Weight (in pounds)
My Weight on Earth
(in pounds)
WHY IS THE PLANET
INTERESTING?
• I think Saturn is interesting because it has
fascinating rings and because it is the second
largest planet in the solar system. I also like
that its nickname is “the jewel of the solar
system”.
MORE INTERESTING FACTS
• GAS GIANT
• NO SOLID SURFACE
• UNBELIEVABLE LIGHTS
• NO LIVING LIFE
• MOST VISIBLE
• 10 TIMES WIDER THAN EARTH
• TURNS CLOCKWISE SLOWLY
• SATURDAY IS NAMED AFTER SATURN
• THE SYMBOL FOR SATURN IS THE SICKLE
• THE RINGS ARE BRIGHTER THAN SATURN ITSELF
SOURCES
• http://planetfacts.org/saturn-pictures/
• http://www.kidsastronomy.com/saturn.htm
• http://www.spaceimages.com/saturnphotos.html
• http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Moons/MoonsSolSys.htm
• http://www.space.com/48-saturn-the-solar-systems-major-ring-
bearer.html/