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Saturn, jrabbott

Saturn

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Saturn, jrabbott

Saturn

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine times that of Earth. It only has one-eighth the average density of Earth; however, with its larger volume, Saturn is over 95 times more massive.

Moons: Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, Dione, Tethys, Iapetus, Hyperion,

Distance from Sun: 890.8 million mi

Orbital period: 29 years

Surface area: 16.49 billion mi²

Radius: 36,184 mi

Mass: 5.683 × 10^26 kg (95.16 M⊕

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Saturn, jrabbott