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Saturn Table of Contents o o o o o o o Pictures of Saturn and Saturn’s Rings How was Saturn Created Saturn’s Features Saturn’s Year and Day Saturn’s Rings Long Ago Today Pictures of Saturn and Saturn’s Rings How was Saturn Created • Scientists believe that Saturn is made of cold gas and dust. Just as all of the other planets were during the solar nebula. • Saturn’s rings are made of ice, dust, and rocks! Some of the particles can be as small as a single piece of salt, while others can be as big as an RV! Saturn’s Features • Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun. • Saturn has sixty moons, but only fifty-two officially have names. • Saturn’s rings are by far the most spectacular out of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. Saturn Year and Day • Saturn’s year = 29.46 Earth years • Saturn’s Day = 0.43 Earth day Saturn’s Rings Ring Name: D Distance*: 66,970 - 74,490 km Width: 7,500 km Ring Name: C Distance*: 74,490 - 91,980 km Width: 17,500 km Ring Name: Columbo Gap Distance*: 77,800 km Width: 100 km Ring Name: Maxwell Gap Distance*: 87,500 km Width: 270 km Ring Name: Bond Gap Distance*: 88,690 - 88,720 km Width: 30 km Long Ago • In Roman myths Saturn is the god of agriculture! • Galileo was the first to see Saturn with a telescope in 1610. Galileo was confused with the shape of the planet. • Until 1659 no one understood the rings around Saturn. Christiaan Huygens inferred the shape of Saturn. Today • Voyagers one and two flew by and photographed Saturn in 1981. • Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will orbit Saturn more than seventy times while studying the planet and its moons, rings, and magnetosphere.