Dyln Kirk

Facts about Saturn to put a ring around:

• Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun,
• The second biggest to Jupiter,
• 764 Earths could fit into Saturn if it was hollow,
• Saturn is a gas giant,
• Saturn has sixty-two moons,
• Saturn has only been visited four times by spacecraft,
• Saturn has a small rocky core covered in a layer of liquid gas,
• Saturn has four main groups of rings, and there are three fainter narrower ring groups,
• Saturn is surrounded by a system of rings that stretch out into space for thousands of kilometers,
• Saturn is not a peaceful planet. Storm winds race around the planet at 800 kilometers per hour,
• Canup proposed that the rings are the remnants of a bygone moon,
• When Saturn and its satellites formed along with the rest of the solar system,
• 4.5 billion years ago, one of Saturn's moons formed too close to  maintain a stable orbit,
• since first entering the field of view of Galileo Galilei  telescope in 1610 which made Galileo the founder of Saturn,
• Saturn distance from the sun is 1.434 billion kilometers, the orbital period of 29 years,
• radius 58,232
• Surface area 42.7 billion km2
• Did you know a day on Saturn is 10 hours and 14 munites?