Social Studies ELP Class 3

There are eight planets in the Solar system. Some of these planets are gaseous and the others are rocky in nature. Speak to your elders/look up the internet/read books and collect information about any one planet (which interests you the most) in detail and compile the information either in a scrapbook/Ppt. You can draw pictures/paste cutouts/share videos/write the findings to compile the information collected by you. Your observation/research can be based on the following criteria: ❖ Name of the planet ❖ Kind of planet (gaseous/rocky) ❖ Shape ❖ Size ❖ Distance from the Sun ❖ Number of satellites in the planet



Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth; however, with its larger volume, Saturn is over 95 times more massive. Saturn is not the only planet to have rings, but none are as spectacular or as complex as Saturn's.

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From an average distance of 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), Saturn is 9.5 astronomical units away from the Sun (1.4761 billion km).Saturn has 82 moons. Fifty-three moons are confirmed and named and another 29 moons are awaiting confirmation of discovery and official naming. Saturn's moons range in size from larger than the planet Mercury — the giant moon Titan — to as small as a sports arena.