Average distance from the Sun: 887,140,000 mi.
Diameter of the planet: 74,978 mi.

Saturn is the planet well-known for its beautiful system of rings.
One of the farther away planets visible to the naked eye.
The Greeks knew Saturn as Cronos the God of time.
The Romans knew Saturn as the God of old age.
Saturn is the second largest planet in our soloar system.
The diameter of its equator is 9.4 times lager than that of our Earth's.
One year on Saturn is 29.46 Earth years.
Saturn spins on its axis much faster than Earth's, and one day on Saturn is only 10 hours and 40 minutes.
The average temperature of Saturn is -292 Farenheit.
Saturn is the least dense planet in the solar system; its density is only .7 of the density of water. Earth is the densest planet; 5.5 times the density of water.
The mass of Saturn is 95 times the mass of the Earth.
Saturn is %75 hydrogen and %25 helium with traces of water, methane, ammonia and "rock", similar to the composition of the primordial Solar Nebula from which the solar system was formed.
Saturn has more moons (over 18) than any of our other planets and has an extensive system of rings. The moons of Saturn are named: Pan, Altlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Telesto, Calypso, Dione, Helen, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Phoebe. The rings are formed of icy fragments and extend for 250,000 miles--over ten times the distance around the Earth.
The average thickness of the rings is only about 100 feet.