Saturn Statistics
| Planetary Symbol: |
 |
Name in Roman/Greek Mythology: |
Saturn/Cronus |
| Diameter: |
119,871 km (74,500 miles) |
Rotation Period about Axis: |
10.67 hrs |
| Mass: |
568.5x10^24 kilograms (95 x Earth's) |
Revolution Period about the Sun: |
29.5 years |
| Density: |
687 kg/m^3 |
Tilt of Axis: |
26o 42" |
| Minimum Distance from Sun: |
1.35 billion km
(840 million miles) |
Surface Gravity: |
8.96 m/s^2 (0.92 x Earth's) |
| Maximum Distance from Sun: |
1.5 billion km
(938 million miles) |
Temperature at Cloud Tops: |
-170o C (-274o F) |
| Orbital Semimajor Axis: |
9.53 AU (Earth=1 AU) |
Average Cloud Top Temperature (K): |
103K |
| Minimum Distance from Earth: |
1.2 billion km
(746 million miles) |
Satellites/Rings: |
known moons, many rings |
Saturn Image Archive
Comparative Planetary Statistics -- in table form
Comparative Orbital Statistics -- in table form
Actual Distance to Earth
News from NSF: A Newly Discovered Solar System Contains Scaled-Down Versions of Saturn and Jupiter (2/14/08)
Podcasts from NSF: Systemic Search
Last modified September 25, 2009 by Eduardo Araujo-Pradere.
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