1. Galileo was the first person to discover the Saturn rings. He was confused by its strange appearance in his telescope.
2. Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.
3. It was in 1659 that Christiaan Huygens rightly inferred the geometry of the rings.
4. Due to fast rotation on its axis, Saturn is flattened at the poles.
5. Saturn's distance from the Sun is two times that of Jupiter.
6. Saturn is the only planet in our solar system that is less dense that water.
7. Saturn’s rings are believed to be the particles of an old moon destroyed in a collision about 50 million years ago.
8. A Saturn year lasts for more than 29 Earth years, but a Saturn day only lasts 10 hours and 14 minutes.
9. Saturn is yellow in color and is believed to be the third brightest planet in night sky.
10. It is assumed that Saturn’s rings will disappear one day. They will either dissolve into space or get sucked into the planet by its pull of gravity.
11. Saturn was the god of agriculture in Roman mythology. Saturn is also the father of Jupiter, the king of the Roman gods.
12. Saturn has the most number of moons in our solar system.
