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  2. Saturn - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun

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    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 ...

  4. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    With a few exceptions, the farther a planet or belt is from the Sun, the larger the distance between its orbit and the orbit of the next nearest object to the Sun. For example, Venus is approximately 0.33 AU farther out from the Sun than Mercury, whereas Saturn is 4.3 AU out from Jupiter, and Neptune lies 10.5 AU out from Uranus.

  5. List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System

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    ^ Calculated using the formula = / /, where T eff = 54.8 K at 52 AU, is the geometric albedo, q = 0.8 is the phase integral, and is the distance from the Sun in AU.

  6. Solar System belts - Wikipedia

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    The asteroid and comet belts orbit the Sun from the inner rocky planets into outer parts of the Solar System, interstellar space. [16] [17] [18] An astronomical unit, or AU, is the distance from Earth to the Sun, which is approximately 150 billion meters (93 million miles). [19]

  7. List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia

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    The sizes and masses of many of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are fairly well known due to numerous observations and interactions of the Galileo and Cassini orbiters; however, many of the moons with a radius less than ~100 km, such as Jupiter's Himalia, have far less certain masses. [5]

  8. Saturn's rings will disappear from view of ground-based ... - AOL

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    Saturn’s rings are seen as viewed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which obtained the images that comprise this mosaic at a distance of approximately 450,000 miles from Saturn April 25, 2007.

  9. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

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    Mean distance to sun (AU) ... Saturn 9.510 10759.2 7.43 Kepler became aware of John Napier's recent invention of logarithms and log-log graphs before he discovered ...