BOBBY

SATURN

Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system and is another gas giant. Saturn has a small rocky core covered with liquid gas. It is surrounded by a system of rings that stretches out into space for thousands of kilometres. Saturn is the second biggest planet, but it’s also the lightest planet. If there was a bathtub big enough to hold Saturn, it would float in the water! Saturn's rings can be seen with even a small telescope. A larger telescope shows that there are multiple rings. The rings are made of chunks of rock and ice -- some just tiny pieces of dust, some more than half a mile (one km) across.

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Approximately 856 million miles to go around

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More than 30 moons (we're discovering more all the time -- 18 have been named Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the entire solar system.

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Approximately 75,000 miles (120,000 km) the second largest planet -- more than 9 Earths could line up across it!

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29.5 Earth years (the length of one orbit around the sun)

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Saturn's rings can be seen with even a small telescope. A larger telescope show that there are multiple rings. What are the rings made of? The rings are made of chunks of rock and ice -- some just tiny pieces of dust, some more than half a mile (one km) across.

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Earth's equator is tilted 23 degrees. It is this tilt that gives the planet its 4 seasons. Each year, as we orbit around the sun the tilt of the planet causes different parts of the planet to spend more time in sunlight. The days are longer and the nights shorter and most of us in North America experience summer. On the other half of the world in places like Australia and the other Southern hemisphere countries, the days are shorter and the nights are longer and they have winter. The farther away we are from the equator, the more pronounced the changes due to the tilt are

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Earth

arth is the third planet from the Sun and the only object in the Universe known to harbor life. According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4 billion years ago.[24][25][26] Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Sun and the Moon, Earth's only natural satellite. Earth revolves around the Sun in 365.26 days, a period known as an Earth year. During this time, Earth rotates about its axis about 366.26 times.[n 5]Earth's axis of rotation is tilted, producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface.[27] The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon causes ocean tides, stabilizes the Earth's orientation on its axis, and gradually slows its rotation.[28] Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest of the four terrestrial planets.Earth's lithosphere is divided into several rigid tectonic plates that migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of Earth's surface is covered with water, mostly by oceans.[29] The remaining 29% is land consisting of continents and islands that together have many lakes, rivers and other sources of water that contribute to the hydrosphere. The majority of Earth's polar regions are covered in ice, including the Antarctic ice sheet and the sea ice of the Arctic ice pack. Earth's interior remains active with a solid iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates the Earth's magnetic field, and a convecting mantle that drives plate tectonics.Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in

You’re currently spinning at about 1,000 miles an hour without even trying! That’s how fast the Earth has to turn to make a complete rotation every day. So why can’t you feel it? Your stomach goes all topsy-turvy when you spin around on a merry-go-round, and that’s a lot slower than 1,000 miles per hour.

You can’t feel yourself spinning on Earth for the same reason that you can’t feel yourself moving while you’re on a train. That’s because Earth and the train are both what physicists call “frames of reference.” Frames of reference are kind of like perspectives. A person standing on a train has one perspective—one frame of reference—and a person standing on a station platform has another.

If you were standing on the station platform, you would clearly see the surface was standing still while the train whizzed by. But from the inside, you’d feel like you were standing still while the world moved by. From either frame of reference, you feel like you’re the one staying still. Onboard the train, the world moves. Standing on the platform, the train moves.