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Saturn By Alex Lee
What does Saturn mean in Greek?
Saturn is the god of agriculture, he was called Cronus by the Greek.
Where is Saturn located?
Saturn is 888 million miles from the Sun and it is the sixth planets from the Sun.
Is Saturn an inner or outer planet?
Saturn is an outer planet, because it is the sixth planet from the Sun.
What is Saturn made of?
Saturn is made of rocky core, liquid metallic hydrogen and molecular hydrogen.
What is Saturn atmosphere made of?
Saturn’s atmosphere is made up of hydrogen, helium and methane.
What is the average temperature on Saturn?
The average temperature on Saturn is 220 °F.
How many moons does Saturn have?
Saturn have 62 moons because it is very big. Only 53 moons is named.
What is the diameter of Saturn?
The diameter of Saturn is about 120,000 km.
120,000 km.
How long does it take Saturn to orbit the Sun?
It takes Saturn 10,759.2 days to orbit the Sun.
Interesting Facts
If you weigh 70 pounds on earth you would weigh 82 pounds on Saturn, that’s because Saturn is bigger than Earth.
Earth
What does Earth mean in Greek?
Earth was the mother of rivers, streams and all other landform. She was married to Uranus.
Where is Earth located?
Earth is 150 million kilometers from the Sun, and it is the third planet from the Sun.
Is Earth an inner or outer planet?
• Earth is an inner planet.
What is earth made of?
Earth is made of nickel core and silicate.
What is Earth’s atmosphere made of?
Earth’s atmosphere is made of nitrogen, oxygen and argon.
What is the average temperature on Earth?
The average temperature of Earth is 7.2°C.
How many moons does earth have?
Earth have one moon.
What is the diameter of Earth?
The diameter of earth is
12, 756 km.
12,756 km
How long does it take Earth to orbit the Sun?
It takes Earth 365 or a leap year, 366 days to orbit the Sun.
Interesting Fact
The earth is the biggest of all the terrestrial planets. A terrestrial planet is a dense planet found in the inner Solar System.
What difference does Earth and Saturn have?
Earth is an inner planet and Saturn is an outer planet. It takes Earth 365.3 days to orbit the Sun and it takes Saturn 4332 days to orbit the Sun. It takes Earth 23 hour and 56 minutes for 1 rotation and it takes Saturn 10 hours 13 minutes for 1 rotation.
References
www.kidsastronomy.com