| Typology Saturnian |
| Total Entries 11 |
| Representative Saturnians |
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The planet sometimes known as the Lord of the Rings. It is the furthest out of the five planets known to Earth observers from antiquity, and the dimmest as a result (though it is still brighter than every star in the night sky except for Sirius and Canopus), although its famous rings were not known until telescopic observation by Galileo Galilei discovered them in 1610, though he believed them to be two other giant celestial bodies floating in tandem with Saturn. It wasn’t until the 1650s that Christiaan Huygens (who also discovered Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan) observed and that they were a ring floating separately from the planet. Saturn is the 6th planet in the Solar System, the second most massive (about 95 Earth masses), and the second highest volume, though it’s also the least dense (on average, it is less dense than liquid water). It is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium gas, with a solid rocky core in the center, and additional trace elements. Saturn’s atmosphere, though looking bland in most far-away pictures, has intense cyclones and storms, and the second fastest winds in the solar system on average (after Neptune)… The rings of Saturn are composed of large numbers of ice and rock fragments, possibly formed from a collision of a moon that then never came back together, or possibly formed from material that was too close to Saturn to form a moon in the first place… ~ Saturn – TV Tropes
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