Saturday, January 31, 2015

Saturn

                                                                            Saturn 
     Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun. (It's my favorite planet out of the 8 planets.) It is a Gas Giant like Jupiter. Saturn has a yellow color because it has ammonia crystals, molecules with nitrogen and hydrogen that are freezed up which becomes solid. Saturn is made up of gas and does not have a solid surface. It's gases are deadly and can poison any one (if anyone ever visits Saturn) if they intake a breathe of the air. Saturn is about 1.433 km. away from the sun. It has 53 known satellites and has 7 rings. Saturn only needs about 29 Earth days to complete an orbit around the sun. Because it spins crazily fast, it is shaped like an oval or like a ball that is being squashed between two objects. Even though Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system, it has a density, mass over volume, that is less than water. Saturn is 95 times the mass of Earth, but it has a bigger volume than it's mass. Maybe Saturn can float if placed on water. Saturn's wind is tremendously fast and can reach about 1,800 km./s. Astronomers predict that Saturn's core is made of iron, nickel, and rock. Saturn has about a 45 degree tilt on its axis. 
     I have no idea why I like Saturn the most. I think maybe it's because of it's rings? No idea. My second favorite planet is Jupiter, but I don't know why I like it either.

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