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Saturn
It takes a whole 29 years and 167 days for Saturn to orbit the sun! The length of just one-day is 10 hours and 14 minutes. One year lasts for 29.5 earth days. It has 18 named moons and even more un-named moons! The atmosphere is made up of hydrogen and helium, and the core temperature is a tremendous 12,000oc (22,000 o F)! That is very hot! Galileo Galilei, who was at the time looking in the direction of Saturn in 1610, discovered the orange planet. Saturn is the second biggest planet in our solar system. It’s a massive 95 times heavier than earth and the volume is 750 times the earth. Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered gaps between Ring A and B in 1975, which leaves a gap of 4,000-Km (2,500 miles). Ring A is an immense 15,000 Km (9,300 miles) wide!! That’s biggggg!! The rings are made up from ice particles. Some fragments are as large as houses!! Which are shaped by the 1,600km/h (1,000-mph) winds.
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