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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2017
© 2017 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 33, No. 33
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Saturn and the Rings
With its colorful rings, Saturn is one of the most
recognizable planets in our solar system. But
depending on the time of year, the rings can
play tricks with your eyes!
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Meet
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Cassini is the latest NASA
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Cassini now orbits Saturn
and sends back new pictures
and information all the
time. It has already taken
more than 330,000
photos of Saturn!
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1. It would take about 58 Earth
years for Saturn to orbit the sun
two times.
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2. The diameter of Earth is larger
than that of Saturn.
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TIME TO ORBIT THE SUN
ORBIT SPEED
LENGTH OF DAY
DIAMETER
NUMBER OF MOONS
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After a couple of years, he couldn’t
see what he thought were the two
extra planets. But four years later, he
saw what he thought were “handles”
mysteriously appear.
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He wrote, “I have discovered a most
extraordinary marvel … the planet
Saturn is not one alone, but is
composed of three, which almost
touch one another.” What he thought
were extra planets, were actually
Saturn’s rings.
When Galileo
watched Saturn
with his telescope
400 years ago, he
noticed that the planet
seemed to change over time.
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spacecraft to explore Saturn.
Cassini left Earth in 1997
and arrived at Saturn in
2004. How many years
did it take Cassini to get to
Saturn?
Galileo and Disappearing Planets
Like the Earth, Saturn is tilted in
relationship to the sun. Because of
the tilt of Saturn and the thinness of
the rings, every few years, the rings
look like they have disappeared.
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aturn has seven large rings. Each
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Saturn’s Rings
Scientists think more rings could be discovered
in the future.
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Color Saturn and
its rings.
The rings do not sit still. They spin around
Saturn at very high speeds. A closer look shows
that each large ring is made up of many small
rings, these are called ringlets.
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How Saturn Got Its Name
The Romans knew of seven
bright objects in the sky:
the Sun, the Moon, and five
bright planets. They named
them after their most
important gods. The planet
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Saturn was named after the
Roman god of agriculture.
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another common word
named after this Roman god.
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ASTEROIDS
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CASSINI
SATURN
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RINGS
MOONS
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Saturn Syllables
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