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The average distance between Saturn and the Sun is over 1.4 billion kilometers (9 AU). With an average orbital speed of 9.68 km/s, [ 6 ] it takes Saturn 10,759 Earth days (or about 29 + 1 ⁄ 2 years) [ 86 ] to finish one revolution around the Sun. [ 6 ] As a consequence, it forms a near 5:2 mean-motion resonance with Jupiter. [ 87 ]
Mean distance from the Sun: km AU: 57,909,175 0.38709893 108,208,930 0.72333199 149,597,890 ... rather than 400 km as for the moons of Saturn and Uranus).
Average distance from the Sun – Earth: 1.00 – Average distance of Earth's orbit from the Sun (sunlight travels for 8 minutes and 19 seconds before reaching Earth) – Mars: 1.52 – Average distance from the Sun – Jupiter: 5.2 – Average distance from the Sun – Light-hour: 7.2 – Distance light travels in one hour – Saturn: 9.5 ...
One particularly distant body is 90377 Sedna, which was discovered in November 2003.It has an extremely eccentric orbit that takes it to an aphelion of 937 AU. [2] It takes over 10,000 years to orbit, and during the next 50 years it will slowly move closer to the Sun as it comes to perihelion at a distance of 76 AU from the Sun. [3] Sedna is the largest known sednoid, a class of objects that ...
It is approximately 36 kilometers (22 miles) in diameter. On 25 September 2024 it will pass 0.261 AU (39.0 million km) from Saturn. [2] On 6 March 2027 it will come to perihelion 8.35 AU (1.2 billion km) from the Sun. [3] Then around January 2201, it will make a second close approach to Saturn of 0.074 AU (11.1 million km) ± 6.5 million km. [5]
This list contains a selection of objects 50 and 99 km in radius (100 km to 199 km in average diameter). The listed objects currently include most objects in the asteroid belt and moons of the giant planets in this size range, but many newly discovered objects in the outer Solar System are missing, such as those included in the following ...
The instantaneous distance varies by about ± 2.5 million km or 1.55 million miles as Earth moves from perihelion on ~ January 3 to aphelion on ~ July 4th. [36] At its average distance, light travels from the Sun's horizon to Earth's horizon in about 8 minutes and 20 seconds, [37] while light from the closest points of the Sun and Earth takes ...
The Encke Gap is a 325-km (200 mile) wide gap within the A ring, centered at a distance of 133,590 km (83,000 miles) from Saturn's center. [117] It is caused by the presence of the small moon Pan, [118] which orbits within it. Images from the Cassini probe have shown that there are at least three thin, knotted ringlets within the gap. [95]