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Saturn Facts and History!
From its rings, to its makeup, to its hidden wonders, and more! Join me as I reveal to you the history and some facts, about Saturn! Subscribe for more videos:https://www.youtube.com/c/InsaneCuriosity?sub_confirmation=1? 8. The Finding Of Saturn Believe it or not, Saturn has a long and multi-layered history of being found, and its first appearances are further back in time than you would think. Saturn has been known about since prehistoric times and in early recorded history it was a major character in various mythologies. Babylonian astronomers systematically observed and recorded the movements of Saturn. It was also known about to both the Green and Roman cultures who put them into their pantheons. In ancient Roman mythology, the planet Phainon (Saturn) was sacred to their agricultural god, from which the planet takes its modern name. The Romans considered the god Saturnus the equivalent of the Greek god Cronus. The Greek scientist Ptolemy based his calculations of Saturn's orbit on observations he made while it was in opposition. In Hindu astrology, there are nine astrological objects, known as Navagrahas. Saturn is known as "Shani" and judges everyone based on the good and bad deeds performed in life. A scary thought indeed. Saturn's rings (Which we'll talk about more later) require at least a 15-mm-diameter telescope to resolve and thus were not known to exist until Christiaan Huygens saw them in 1659. Galileo, with his primitive telescope in 1610, incorrectly thought of Saturn's appearing not quite round as two moons on Saturn's sides. It was not until Huygens used greater telescopic magnification that this notion was refuted, and the rings were truly seen for the first time. Huygens also discovered Saturn's moon Titan; Giovanni Domenico Cassini later discovered four other moons: Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys and Dione. 7. Orbits And Seasons As the sixth planet from the sun, you would expect certain things from Saturn in terms of its orbits and its seasons and some of them are true. But not unlike Earth, it has some severe differences in terms of its rotations. Just in regards to a year on Saturn, the ringed-planet takes 29 years to make it around the sun. If you time it right, you'll basically live a third of your life before Saturn orbits the sun once. Yet, almost directly like its brother Jupiter, Saturn has a day that's only 10.6 hours long due to its fast rotation on its axis. Now, just as Jupiter has unique kinds of seasons, so does Saturn. But unlike Jupiter, Saturn has to worry about not just its connection to the sun, but its rings to determine just how hot or how cold it'll get. At certain points in its orbit rotation the rings of Saturn will actually shade the planet, meaning that it'll get cooler. During this point, the intense winds on the planets will decrease by as much as 40%. This says nothing of the intense storms that can occur on the gas giant. And since seasons can last about 8 years on Saturn, that means the shifts can be slow at one point, and then rapid in another. 6. Moons The moons of Saturn are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets only tens of meters across to enormous Titan, which is larger than the planet Mercury. Saturn has 82 moons with confirmed orbits that are not embedded in its rings – of which only 13 have diameters greater than 50 kilometers – as well as dense rings that contain millions of embedded moonlets and innumerable smaller ring particles. Twenty-four of Saturn's moons are regular satellites; they have prograde orbits not greatly inclined to Saturn's equatorial plane. They include the seven major satellites, four small moons that exist in a trojan orbit with larger moons, two mutually co-orbital moons and two moons that act as shepherds of Saturn's F Ring. What is a bit ironic though is that a large sect of Saturn's 82 moons were discovered recently. Like 2019 recently. These moons helped propel Saturn to the top spot of "planet with the most moons", beating Jupiter by three. There are still 29 moons yet to be named (as of October 2019), using names from Gallic, Norse and Inuit mythology based on the orbital groups of the moons. Twenty of these moons are in line to receive permanent designations, with seventeen Norse, two Inuit, and one Gallic name expected. There was even a contest to help try and help think of names for said moons. But of the 82 moons that are with Saturn, the one that everyone likes to talk about...is Titan. 5. Titan Titan is a very interesting moon in both the literal and theoretical sense. Mainly actually believe that it is viable, and even logical, place for humanity to touch down to make a colony. Some have even gone so far as to say that Titan should be the place where we go and make our FIRST colony instead of the moon (of our own Earth) and Mars. Why would we consider going to a place like Titan to be a "new home" for humanity? #InsaneCuriosity #Saturn #TheSolarSystem
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