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How does the size of Saturn compare to the size of the Earth and the Sun?
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∙ 14y ago
To be brief, it's much larger than the Earth, yet much much smaller than the Sun.
Well first off, Saturn is a little tricky to measure because it is not completely spherical. Saturn, along with the rest of the Jovian planets, or Gas giants, is an oblate spheroid. What this means is that the planet is flattened at its poles and bulges out at the equator where its rings surround it. The polar circumference of Saturn is approximately 170,702 km, about 8.5 Earths. Its equatorial circumference is about 189,241 km, almost 9.5 earths. This compared to earth's mean circumference, about 40,000 km, makes earth pretty puny to Saturn. If Saturn were a Basketball, Earth would barely be the size of a small marble.Compare that to the sun's whopping circumference of 4,379,000 km, this would take about 72 Saturns lined up next to each other to make a ring around the sun. It would take 109 planet Earths to do the same!
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How does the size of Saturn compare to the size earth?
Saturn and Jupiter are the two largest planets but Jupiter is bigger
How does Venus size and atmosphere compare to earth?
Venus is smaller than earth and its nearer to the sun so the atmosphere is hotter
How does the distance of the earth from the sun compare to the distance of the gas giant from the sun?
Jupiter is 5 times as far away from the Sun as Earth, Saturn is 10 times as far.
How fast does Saturn rotate and revolve?
About 29.43 Earth years or about 10,750 Earth days. By the way, assume that an Earth year = 365.256 Earth days. Saturn's average orbital speed around the Sun is 9.69 kilometers per second.
How long does it take Saturn to orbit the earth?
It takes almost 30 Earth years for Saturn to go around the sun once. So, 1 year on Saturn = 29.6 years on Earth. When you turn 29 and a half, Saturn will be back in the same place it was the day you were born!
How do the sun and earth compare size?
The Sun's diameter is about 100 times larger.
How is big is Saturn compared to Earth?
Saturn's radius is 9.4 x Earth's radius (equatoral) Saturn's mass is 95.2 x Earth's mass Saturn is 9.5 times further from the Sun than the earth is
How does the Earth's diameter compare to the Sun's diameter?
The Sun's diameter is about 108 times the size of Earth's. (The Sun has a diameter of about 865,000 miles compared to Earth at 8000 miles.)
How does the size of Saturn compare to the size earth?
Saturn and Jupiter are the two largest planets but Jupiter is bigger
What planet takes twenty nine earth years to orbit the sun?
Saturn takes 29.66 years to orbit the sun.
What do scientists call the sun?
Just the sun. Like Earth is still Earth, Saturn is Saturn...
Is Saturn or the sun closest to earth?
The Sun.
How does Venus size and atmosphere compare to earth?
Venus is smaller than earth and its nearer to the sun so the atmosphere is hotter
How much from the sun is the planet Saturn than the planet earth?
Saturn is nearly 10 AU from the sun. (Earth is 1).
How much farther is the sun from is the planet Saturn than Earth?
Saturn is nearly 10 AU from the sun. (Earth is 1).
How much farther from the sun is the planets Saturn than earth?
Saturn is nearly 10 AU from the sun. (Earth is 1).
What the second planet?
venus (in terms of distance from the sun). In terms of distance from the earth, it is Mars In terms of size, it is Saturn.
