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Saturn

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Other forms: Saturns

Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is a type of planet known as a gas giant. Its signature rings are composed of billions of chunks of ice and rock orbiting the planet.

Named after the Roman god of agriculture, who was also associated with wealth and time, Saturn is a massive planet composed mostly of hydrogen and helium. It's about nine times wider than Earth and has such a low density that it would float on water — but you'd have to have a vastly large bathtub for that! Saturn has at least 293 moons: One of them, Titan, is larger than the planet Mercury and has a thick atmosphere and lakes and rivers of liquid methane and ethane.

Definitions of Saturn
  1. noun
    a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun
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    Jovian planet, gas giant
    any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)
    outer planet
    (astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
    superior planet
    any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit
  2. noun
    (Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart of Greek Cronus
    “Saturday is Saturn's Day”
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    Roman deity
    a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans
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