Anyone know any facts about planet saturn?

Question

Anyone know any facts for a fifth grader report about the planet saturn?

Answer 1

Lets see... for a 5th grade report, I would recomend talking about the following:

*Rings --Saturn's rings are made out of rock and ice ranging in size from a small rock, to a 2 story house. They move at very fast rates around the planet, and often crash into each other, making it a hectic environment.

*Its position in the solar system --Saturn is the 6th planet from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn).

*Its chemical makeup. --Saturn is a gas giant, meaning it consists of mostly gas. The only solid part of Saturn is at its core.

Basic Facts About Saturn:

*Saturn is located between Jupiter and Uranus, which makes it the 6th planet from the Sun.

*Saturn is the 2nd largest planet and it’s diameter is 120,563 km equalateral.

*Largest moons: Pan, Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helene, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Pheobe.

*Saturn has 13 rings.

*The rings are split up into 3 sections.The A & B rings are brighter than the C ring.

*Saturn’s largest satellite, Titan, is a shade of red, yellow, and orange.

*It’s distance from the Sun is 1,429,400,000 km.

*It is flattened at the poles visually due to how fast it spins on it’s axis.

*Saturn is named for the God of Agriculture.

*Galileo first observed Saturn with his telescope.

*It’s atmosphere is made of 97 percent hydrogen, 3 percent helium, .05 percent methane.

Answer 2

Check out the links below. There are two great podcasts. One about Saturn itself, the other about it's rings and moons. You can listen to these on your computer, or download into an iPod or MP3 player. The hosts are great at keeping things simple and there are links in the show notes if you would like to do some additional research. This site is also a good source for a lot of space and astronomy related subjects. I hope you find it helpful.  

Answer 3

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets, where Jovian is the adjectival form of Jupiter.

Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturnus, equated to the Greek Kronos (the Titan father of Zeus) and the Babylonian Ninurta. Saturn's symbol represents the god's sickle.

The planet Saturn is composed of hydrogen, with small proportions of helium and trace elements. The interior consists of a small core of rock and ice, surrounded by a thick layer of metallic hydrogen and a gaseous outer layer. The outer atmosphere is generally bland in appearance, although long-lived features can appear. Wind speeds on Saturn can reach 1,800 km/h, significantly faster than those on Jupiter. Saturn has a planetary magnetic field intermediate in strength between that of Earth and the more powerful field around Jupiter.

Saturn has a prominent system of rings, consisting mostly of ice particles with a smaller amount of rocky debris and dust. Sixty known moons orbit the planet. Titan, Saturn's largest and the Solar System's second largest moon (after Jupiter's Ganymede), is larger than the planet Mercury and is the only moon in the Solar System to possess a significant atmosphere.

Answer 4

I know very little about Saturn, but luckily I'm sitting at an internet, so I can read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn

So can you.

Answer 5

Since people above answered scientific facts here's a fun one: When Galileo first observed Saturn and it's rings he couldn't tell what the rings were and described it as a planet with "ears".

Answer 6

As the saying has it "You could look it up" - 6th planet from the sun, 2nd largest, got rings, etc. etc.

http://www.nineplanets.org/saturn.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn

Answer 7

Try nineplanets.org

Or

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cf...

for really new info

Answer 8

It has more than 18 moons, thousands of rings, it is mostly gas, 6th from the sun

Answer 9

Here's a couple more:

If Saturn could fit in on of our oceans, it would float.

The rings of Saturn can easily be seen through a back yard amateur telescope. However, they are currently turning edge - on, so they will soon be difficult to see for a year or so.