Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Space: What I learned for school

SATURN by Tracy Zeng
Saturn is the second largest of all the planets. Its weight is over 95 times of the Earth’s. It is the sixth planet in order from the Sun. Did you know that it is about 1.4 billion kilometers from the Sun? It makes one complete orbit around the Sun every 29.46 years. Since it spins really fast, it completes one rotation in about 10 hours and 39 minutes. The most famous part of Saturn is the many rings that go around it. The rings are made of dust, gasses, and pieces of rock. Right now it has a total of 21 moons discovered, also known as satellites. The planets closest to Saturn are Jupiter and Uranus. The planet Saturn is a very interesting planet to study.

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