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Saturn
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larger picture)
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| Saturn
is the sixth planet from the Sun.
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weighs 627,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons and has
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a
diameter of 74,897 miles.
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One
day on Saturn is 10.7 hours long.
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average distance of Saturn from the Sun is 890.8 million
miles.
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at times Saturn is only 840,400,000 miles from the
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at other times it is actually 941,100,000 miles from
the Sun.
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reason is that the orbit is not a perfect circle, but an
ellipse.
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| Saturn
takes 10,747 days to orbit the Sun. That’s 29.4 years.
The
mean temperature on Saturn is -220
degrees
fahrenheit.
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