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• The Sun
• Nine Planets
• Orbit
– highly eccentric
– perihelion 46 million km
– aphelion it is 70 million km
• Closest to sun
• Appears to travel fastest
• 8th largest
– Saturn’s magnetic field is 20x less than Jupiter's, but its core rotation period (10.5 hours)
is similar.
• Saturn’s Moons:
– Titan is the big one, and is larger than planet Mercury!
– Epimetheus and Janus, just inside the orbit of Mimas, are continually exchanging orbits
with one another in a "waltz" -- they are called the coorbital satellites.
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Uranus
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5 Pluto
11/15/99 Norm Herr (sample file)
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NEPTUNE
Saturn!
• This sample file was created by Norm Herr for use in SED 619 at
CSUN
• Photographs are provided by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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