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• February 11, 2012

14 Responses to “ planet saturn? ”

1. 

   therealtreefitty on July 30, 2010 at 5:32 am

   http://www.wikipedia.org
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   Havoc Angel on July 30, 2010 at 6:14 am

   its about 9 inches big
3. 

   Katrina DeVries on July 30, 2010 at 7:09 am

   bigger than a bread box
4. 

   Giuseppe H on July 30, 2010 at 8:03 am

   Saturn is has a diameter of 75,000 miles
   and is about 1 Billion miles from Earth
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   enzymatic on July 30, 2010 at 8:21 am

   It’s about 75000 miles in diameter.

   Aaaand… its distance from Earth varies with their respective rotations. But if they were lined up on the same side of the sun, they’d be 746 million miles apart.
6. 

   Helsinki on July 30, 2010 at 8:22 am

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
   Check it here
7. 

   Matt on July 30, 2010 at 9:11 am

   On my map it’s two inches bigger than the earth.

   But seriously, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica I have:
   It’s 1,250,000,000 kilometers from Earth.
   Equatorial radius: 60,268 ± 4 km[4][5]
   9.4492 Earths
   Polar radius: 54,364 ± 10 km[4][5]
   8.5521 Earths
8. 

   Jonathan on July 30, 2010 at 9:25 am

   It’s 1,250,000,000 kilometers from Earth.

   Equatorial radius: 60,268 ± 4 km[4][5]
   9.4492 Earths
   Polar radius: 54,364 ± 10 km[4][5]
   8.5521 Earths
9. 

   Asker on July 30, 2010 at 9:54 am

   It is 1,240 million kilometers from Earth and it is 120,000km in diameter.
10. 

    julidyn b on July 30, 2010 at 10:50 am

    Saturn has a diameter of about 75,000 miles (120,000 kilometers) and orbits around 886,000,000 miles away from the Sun. This makes it the second largest planet in the solar system and the sixth planet from the Sun. Because it is so far away from the Sun, one Saturn year is actually 29.5 Earth years (Imagine how long it would take to turn 16 and start driving if we lived on Saturn! Be glad you’re here on Earth!). However, the length of a day on Saturn is significantly shorter- only 10.5 hours! This is because Saturn is spinning at a really (really) fast speed. Saturn is not a solid planet like Earth or the other inner planets. In fact, if we were to land on Saturn, we would most likely be landing on an “ocean.” Because it is not solid and is rotating at such a high speed, the liquid material has a tendency to move to the equator. As a result, Saturn is the most oblate planet. In other words, Saturn has a big potbelly. Earth also has a slight potbelly- its equatorial diameter is about 13 miles (20.8 kilometers) wider than its polar diameter. However, Saturn is 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers) wider at its equator than at its poles. When looking through a telescope, Saturn will appear to be a stout, portly planet. (But that’s ok. Beauty comes in all sizes!)
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    Darkly Dreaming Scarlett on July 30, 2010 at 11:00 am

    Saturn is about 793 million miles from Earth. Saturn at its equator is about 74,900 miles (120,540 kilometers), almost 10 times that of Earth.
12. 

    O.G Loc'Z on July 30, 2010 at 12:00 pm

    i think its like 1 feet long
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    alex on July 30, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    seventy light-minutes, which is distance achieved by light traveling for 70 min. (70 min. AU) Saturn is the second-largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter is the only planet that is bigger. The gas giant is 72 thousand miles in diameter, almost ten times the size of Earth. To put it another way, if you had a ball that was the size of a dime, Saturn would be a little bigger than a soccer ball.
    In spite of its huge size, though, Saturn weighs very little. It is a very light gas planet. Saturn is so light, in fact, that it would float in water, assuming you had a very large swimming pool. I ,,copy and paste,, this
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    gking92 on July 30, 2010 at 1:31 pm

    It is about 1,250,000,000km or 8AU* from Earth and is about 120,000 km in diameter.

    *An AU or astronomical unit is a unit of distance that is the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun – about 150,000,000km or 93,000,000 miles.