Saturn's story

Saturn is the planet of our solar system looking is the day after tomorrow Sunday, April 28th was the closest to the Earth. Come learn some interesting facts about the planet ..

- Before Saturn on April 15, 2012 came to earth, then their distance averaged 130 crore 40 lakh Km. Said.

- Sat April 28 after the sun sets in the west to the east shrouded morning show. Showing the planets in the night sky.

- By easing it appeared to be bright, but the planet's ring (ring) can be seen with the aid of a telescope.

- The sixth place Sat Sun in our solar system and is the largest planet after Jupiter. The orbital path of rotation is approximately 142.94 million kilometers.

- The name of the Roman god Saturn placed on agriculture.

- More and weigh approximately 9 times the diameter of the Earth 95 times greater than Earth's.

- The planet is made of 75 percent hydrogen and 25 percent helium.

- The inner core of iron, nickel and rock (silicon and oxygen compounds), which is surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydrogen. In this environment, liquid hydrogen, liquid helium and the outer layer of gases.

- Supposedly running on Saturn can reach wind speeds of 1800 kilometers per hour. Jupiter over it, but at Napchun.

- A total of 60 satellites of Saturn have been discovered, which is considered the biggest Titan. Titan is the second largest satellite of Jupiter's satellite Ginimed.

- It is believed that Saturn was discovered in ancient times, but with binoculars it was Galileo Galilei discovered in the year 1610.

- Four planets in our solar system (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) Joynts called the gas, because these are giant planets, mostly gases.

- The planet rotating around the sun takes about 29.5 years. Sat 1 lakh 20 thousand kilometers in diameter.

- The temperature at minus 180 degrees Celsius.

Saturn's ring

- Create a ring around Saturn 2 lakh 70 thousand km. Extends through the thickness is less than a kilometer.

- These rings are made of ice and snow mixed stony Pdathren.

- According to a search, Saturn's ring can be made 4-5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still in its developmental phase. Was first believed that these rings came into being in the era of dinosaurs.

Was reported in Science Daily.
Kesini ultraviolet imaging spectrograph chief investigator Professor Larry Esposito after research had shown that these rings were always, but is constantly changing.