Saturn is 1425 million kilometres from the Sun.

Saturn takes 30 years to orbit the Sun.

Saturn has 18 named satellites (moons), and 12 more that have recently been discovered which are yet to be named.

Saturn is the 6th planet from the Sun

Saturn was named in the 6th century after the Roman god of agriculture. The planet was first observed with a telescope by Galileo in 1610.

kidcyber has located these useful websites about the planet Saturn

http://www.solarsystem.org.uk/saturn/
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/saturn/saturn.html

Acknowledge this source in your bibliography like this:
Saturn (2007). [Online], Available: www.kidcyber.com.au

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Updated April 2007