Saturn

Saturn can refer to any of the following:

Saturn (planet)
Saturn (god), god in Roman mythology
Saturn automobile, a General Motors brand
Saturn rocket family - most famous is Saturn V
Sega Saturn, a short-lived game console

Saturn (planet)

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Saturn

Orbital characteristics
Mean radius 1,426,725,400 km km
Eccentricity 0.05415060
Revolution period 29y 167d 6.7h
Synodic period 378.1 days
Avg. Orbital Speed 9.6724 km/s
Inclination 2.48446°
Number of satellitess 30
Physical characteristics
Equatorial diameter 120,536 km
Surface area 4.38×10¹⁰ km²
Mass 5.688×10²⁶kg
Mean density 0.69 g/cm³
Surface gravity 8.96 m/s²
Rotation period
equatorial 10h 13m 59s
Rotation period
internal 10h 39m 25s
Axial tilt 26.73°
Albedo 0.47
Escape Speed 35.49 km/s
Avg. Cloudtop temp 93K
Surface temp

min mean max

82K 143K N/A K

Atmospheric characteristics
Atmospheric pressure 140 kPa
Hydrogen >93%
Helium >5%
Methane 0.2%
Water vapor 0.1%
Ammonia 0.01%
Ethane 0.0005%
Phosphine 0.0001%

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant, the second-largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter.

Physical characteristics

Saturn's shape is visibly flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator (an oblate spheroid); its equatorial and polar diameters vary by almost 10% (120,536 km vs. 108,728 km). This is the result of its rapid rotation and fluid state. The other gas planets are also oblate, but not so much so. Saturn is also the least dense of the Solar System's planets with an average specific density of 0.69, significantly less than water. This is only an average value, however; Saturn's upper atmosphere is less dense and its core is considerably more dense than water.

Saturn's interior is similar to Jupiter's, having a rocky core at the center, a liquid metallic hydrogen layer above that, and a molecular hydrogen layer above that. Traces of various ices are also present. Saturn has a very hot interior, reaching 12000 K at the core, and it radiates more energy into space than it receives from the Sun. Most of the extra energy is generated by the Kelvin-Helmholtz mechanism (slow gravitational compression), but this alone may not be sufficient to explain Saturn's heat production. An additional proposed mechanism by which Saturn may generate some of its heat is the "raining out" of droplets of helium deep in Saturn's interior, the droplets of helium releasing heat by friction as they fall down through the lighter hydrogen.

Saturn's atmosphere exhibits a banded pattern similar to Jupiter's, but Saturn's bands are much fainter and they're also much wider near the equator. Saturn's cloud patterns were not observed until the Voyager flybys. Since then, however, Earth-based telescopy has improved to the point where regular observations can be made. Saturn exhibits long-lived ovals and other features common on Jupiter; in 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope observed an enormous white cloud near Saturn's equator which was not present during the Voyager encounters and in 1994 another, smaller storm was observed.

The exploration of Saturn

Saturn was first visited by Pioneer 11 in 1979 and later by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The Cassini, now on its way, will arrive in 2004.

Saturn's rings

Saturn is probably best known for its famous planetary rings. They were first observed by Galileo Galilei in 1610 with his telescope, but he clearly did not know what to make of it. He wrote to the Grand Duke of Tuscany that "Saturn is not alone but is composed of three, which almost touch one another and never move nor change with respect to one another. They are arranged in a line parallel to the zodiac, and the middle one (Saturn itself) is about three times the size of the lateral ones (actually the edges of the rings)." He also described Saturn has having "ears." In 1612 the plane of the rings was oriented directly at the Earth and the rings appeared to vanish, and then in 1613 they reappeared again, further confusing Galileo.

The riddle of the rings was not solved until 1655 by Christiaan Huygens, using a telescope much more powerful than the ones available to Galileo in his time. Leo Allatius, a theologian at the time, suggested that the ring may be the foreskin of Jesus Christ, ascended into the heavens.

In 1675 Giovanni Cassini determined that Saturn's ring was actually composed of multiple smaller rings with gaps between them; the largest of these gaps was later named the Cassini Division.

The rings can be seen in quite modest modern telescopes or a good pair of binoculars. They are composed of silica rock, iron oxide, and ice particles ranging in size from specks of dust to the size of a small automobile. There are two main theories regarding the origin of Saturn's rings. One theory, originally proposed by Edward Roche in the 19th century, is that the rings were once a moon of Saturn whose orbit decayed until it came close enough to be ripped apart by tidal forces. A variation of this theory is that the moon disintegrated after being struck by a large comet or asteroid. The second theory is that the rings were never part of a moon, but are instead left over from the original nebular material that Saturn formed out of. This theory is not widely accepted today, since Saturn's rings are thought to be unstable over periods of millions of years and therefore of relatively recent origin.

Saturn's moons

Saturn has a large number of moons, 18 of which have names. The exact number of moons is uncertain, there being large numbers of objects of all sizes in orbit around Saturn. A recent survey starting in late 2000 found another 12 moons in orbits suggesting that they were the fragments of larger bodies captured by Saturn (Nature vol. 412, p.163-166)

Saturn's natural satellites
Name Diameter (km) Mass (kg) Mean orbital
radius (km) Orbital period
Pan 20 Unknown 133,583 0.575 days
Atlas 30 (40 × 20) Unknown 137,670 0.6019 days
Prometheus 91 (145 × 85 × 62) 2.70×10¹⁷ 139,350 0.6130 days
Pandora 84 (114 × 84 × 62) 2.20×10¹⁷ 141,700 0.6285 days
Epimetheus 115 (144 × 108 × 98) 5.60×10¹⁷ 151,422 0.6942 days Co-orbital
Janus 178 (196 × 192 × 150) 2.01×10¹⁸ 151,472 0.6945 days
Mimas 392 3.80×10¹⁹ 185,520 0.942422 days
Enceladus 498 7.30×10¹⁹ 238,020 1.370218 days
Tethys 1060 6.22×10²⁰ 294,660 1.887802 days Co-orbital
Telesto 29 (34 × 28 × 36) Unknown 294,660 1.887802 days
Calypso 26 (34 × 22 × 22) Unknown 294,660 1.887802 days
Dione 1120 1.05×10²¹ 377,400 2.736915 days Co-orbital
Helene 33 (36 × 32 × 30) Unknown 377,400 2.736915 days
Rhea 1530 2.49×10²¹ 527,040 4.5175 days
Titan 5150 1.35×10²³ 1,221,830 15.94542 days
Hyperion 286 (410 × 260 × 220) 1.77×10¹⁹ 1,481,100 21.27661 days
Iapetus 1460 1.88×10²¹ 3,561,300 79.33018 days
Phoebe 220 4.00×10¹⁸ 12,952,000 550.48 days

Saturn's natural satellites
Name	Diameter (km)	Mass (kg)	Mean orbital radius (km)	Orbital period
Pan	20	Unknown	133,583	0.575 days
Atlas	30 (40 × 20)	Unknown	137,670	0.6019 days
Prometheus	91 (145 × 85 × 62)	2.70×10¹⁷	139,350	0.6130 days
Pandora	84 (114 × 84 × 62)	2.20×10¹⁷	141,700	0.6285 days
Epimetheus	115 (144 × 108 × 98)	5.60×10¹⁷	151,422	0.6942 days	Co-orbital
Janus	178 (196 × 192 × 150)	2.01×10¹⁸	151,472	0.6945 days
Mimas	392	3.80×10¹⁹	185,520	0.942422 days
Enceladus	498	7.30×10¹⁹	238,020	1.370218 days
Tethys	1060	6.22×10²⁰	294,660	1.887802 days	Co-orbital
Telesto	29 (34 × 28 × 36)	Unknown	294,660	1.887802 days
Calypso	26 (34 × 22 × 22)	Unknown	294,660	1.887802 days
Dione	1120	1.05×10²¹	377,400	2.736915 days	Co-orbital
Helene	33 (36 × 32 × 30)	Unknown	377,400	2.736915 days
Rhea	1530	2.49×10²¹	527,040	4.5175 days
Titan	5150	1.35×10²³	1,221,830	15.94542 days
Hyperion	286 (410 × 260 × 220)	1.77×10¹⁹	1,481,100	21.27661 days
Iapetus	1460	1.88×10²¹	3,561,300	79.33018 days
Phoebe	220	4.00×10¹⁸	12,952,000	550.48 days

Front Row Seats

Saturn and its rings are best seen when the planet is at or near opposition (the configuration of a planet when it is a an elongation of 180° and thus appears opposite the Sun in the sky.)
Saturn's Opposition Periods 2001-2005
Date of Opposition Distance to Earth (AU) Angular diameter
December 3, 2001 8.08 20.6 arcsec

December 17, 2002 8.05 20.7 arcsec

December 31, 2003 8.05 20.7 arcsec

January 13, 2005 8.08 20.6 arcsec

Saturn's Opposition Periods 2001-2005
Date of Opposition	Distance to Earth (AU)	Angular diameter
December 3, 2001	8.08	20.6 arcsec
December 17, 2002	8.05	20.7 arcsec
December 31, 2003	8.05	20.7 arcsec
January 13, 2005	8.08	20.6 arcsec

The Solar System

Sun - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Asteroids - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune - Pluto - Comets - Kuiper belt - Oort cloud

Saturn automobile

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General Motors set up its Saturn automobile manufacturing division in 1990, largely to face stiff competition from Japanese manufacturers, especially for smaller vehicles. With Saturn, GM attempted to do something different, and to avoid the conventions of typical American car-making. The division's headquarters and primary manufacturing facility are located in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

The S-series compacts were Saturn's first product, and they remained in production, with minor alterations, from the fall of 1990 through the end of the 2002 model year. The S-series line-up included sedans (SL, SL-1, SL-2), coupes (SC, SC-1, SC-2) and wagons (SW-1, SW-2). In the late 1990s right hand-drive variants were marketed in Japan. Two engines, designed in-house and unique to Saturn, were available. They were the single- and the twin-cam fours, each 1.9 liters in displacement.

The L-series sedans and wagons were introduced in 2000. They are based on the Opel Vectra and are manufactured in Wilmington, Delaware. These models are available with 4 and 6-cylinder engines.

The VUE SUV was introduced for the 2002 model year and was designed in-house. It is manufactured in Spring Hill. Its platform will be shared with the upcoming Chevrolet Equinox.

Saturn has kept some distinction in car sales because from the outset it had a "no-nonsense" approach to selling cars. Saturn has had simple straightforward pricing for its cars, without the complicated dealing and negotiating for which nearly all other car dealers have been infamous.

Saturn's current line-up as of 2003 includes:

ION, a compact which entered the market in late 2002. Comes in sedan and coupe forms.
L series, a mid-sized car.
VUE, a small SUV with an available continuously variable transmission (CVT).

In 2004, Saturn will be coming out with high-performance "Red-Line" variants of the ION and VUE. The Relay mini-van will be introduced for the 2005 model year.

1991 Saturn SL-1

2003 ION2 at Spring Hill
Larger version

External links

Saturn website
SaturnFans.com

Saturn rocket
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The Saturn family of rockets were developed to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. They were adopted as the launch vehicles for the Apollo program. The two most important members of the family were the Saturn IB and the Saturn V.

Early development
The original Saturn design originated with a concept developed by Wernher von Braun in 1957. He submitted a proposal to the United States Department of Defence, outlining a need to develop a heavy booster with thrust in the 1.5 million pound range. Such a booster would be able to place a payload of 20,000-40,000 pounds in Earth orbit, or 6,000-12,000 pounds elsewhere in the Solar System. The following year, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) approved a research and development program for a booster designated Juno V (as a continuation of the Juno series of rockets, the satellite-launching variant of the military Jupiter missile.
Two approaches were considered - using multiple engines to reach the 1.5 million pound mark, or using a single engine of far greater power than had ever been conceptualised up to that point. Both avenues were investigated by von Braun’s team.
It was suggested that the most practical way to build a multi-engined booster was to cluster existing rocket stages together - a strategy that sceptics dubbed "Cluster's Last Stand" but which was quickly demonstrated to be feasible by the construction of a non-flying test stage. Von Braun had proposed a design where eight Redstone missile stages would be clustered around a single Jupiter missile stage. Each of these nine individual rockets would be fitted with an engine derived from the S-3D engine already being used on Thor and Jupiter missiles. Rocketdyne, the manufacturer of the S-3D received a contract to upgrade the engine from 150,000 lbs of thrust to 188,000 lbs. The resulting engine was designated the H-1.
At the same time, Rocketdyne designed a single engine that would meet the requirement of developing the entire thrust of the clustered approach in the one engine, and designated it the F-1.
In 1959, Von Braun suggested that the name of the booster should be changed to "Saturn", one step beyond Jupiter, and ARPA approved the change. At the same time, it decided that the military had no immediate use for such a heavy launch vehicle, and turned the project over to NASA. In the meantime, von Braun’s team turned their efforts towards developing upper stages for the booster.

Silverstein Committee
A government commission, the "Saturn Vehicle Evaluation Committee" (better known as the Silverstein Committee was assembled to recommend specific directions that NASA could take with the program. The committee recommended the development of new, hydrogen-burning upper stages for the Saturn, and outlined eight different configurations for heavy-lift boosters ranging from very low-risk solutions making heavy use of existing technology to designs that relied on hardware that had not been developed yet, including the proposed new upper stage. The configurations were:
Contracts for the development of a new hydrogen-burning engine was given to Rocketdyne in 1960 and for the development of the Saturn IV stage to Douglas the same year.

Project Apollo
The challenge that President John F. Kennedy put to NASA in May 1961 to put an astronaut on the moon by the end of the decade put a sudden new urgency on the Saturn program. That year saw a flurry of activity as different means of reaching the moon were evaluated. Eventually, the Saturn C-5, (later given the name Saturn V), the most powerful of the Silverstein Committee's configurations, was selected as the most suitable for fulfilling this goal. At this point, however, all three stages existed only on paper, and it was realised that it was very likely that the actual lunar spacecraft would be developed and ready for testing long before the booster. NASA therefore decided to also continue development of the C-1 (later Saturn I) as a test vehicle, since its lower stage was based on existing technology and its upper stage was already in development.
Ultimately, the members of the Saturn family that made it to the launch pad were:
Saturn I - 10 rockets flown to evaluate the Saturn I and, in later flights, the Saturn IV stages.
Saturn IB - a refined version of the Saturn I with a more powerful first stage (also designated Saturn IB). These carried the first crewed Apollo flights into orbit, and later provided the boosters for the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz flights.
Saturn V - the moon rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon. Another Saturn V placed the Skylab space station in orbit.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Saturn

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Modern Translations: Saturn

Language		Translations for "Saturn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Saturn. (various references)

Arabic		‏ساتورن إله الزراعة عند الرومان, ‏زحل. (various references)

Bulgarian		Сатурн. (various references)

Chinese		土星. (various references)

Czech		Saturn. (various references)

Dutch		Saturnus. (various references)

Esperanto		Saturno. (various references)

French		Saturne. (various references)

German		Saturn. (various references)

Greek		ίρόνοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		בתאי. (various references)

Hungarian		Szaturnusz, �"lom. (various references)

Indonesian		kaiwan. (various references)

Italian		Saturno. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		土星 , サイン曲線 (ca et la, commercial jingle, saccharin, sack, sack dress, sacrifice, sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly, saddle, sadism, sadist, sadistic, sado, sadomasochism, Sahara, sanatorium, sanitary, sanitary napkin, sash, Saskatchewan, Satan, satellite, satellite computer, satellite office, satellite station, satellite studio, satin, satisfaction, Saturday night special, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, sauna, sax, saxophone, sine curve, sinusoid, skirt with suspender, soccer, soccer coach, sound, sound box, sound business, sound effects, sound logo, sound man, soundinterface, soundtrack, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southern Cross, southpaw, success, success story, sudden death, suggest, suggestion, suspend, suspended game, suspenders, suspense, suspense drama, suspension, sustaining program, Thousand Island). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		どせい (angry voice, clay, earthen, harsh words), サターン . (various references)

Korean		� 성. (various references)

Manx		Sarn (Saturday). (various references)

Pig Latin		aturnsay

Portuguese		Saturno. (various references)

Russian		Сатурн. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		saturn, olovo (lead, plumb). (various references)

Spanish		Saturno. (various references)

Swedish		Saturnus. (various references)

Turkish		Satürn, Ziraat Tanrısı, Zühal, Kurşun (bullet, lead, plumbic, plumbo-, projectile). (various references)

Ukranian		Сатурн. (various references)

Vietnamese		thần Xa-tuya, thần Nông sao Thổ. (various references)

Welsh		Sadwrn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Saturn

Rhyming with "Saturn"

Anagrams: Saturn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: santur.
	Words within the letters "a-n-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: aunts, rants, runts, sutra, tarns, trans, tunas, turns.
	-2 letters: ants, anus, arts, aunt, nuts, rant, rats, runs, runt, rust, ruts, star, stun, sura, tans, tarn, tars, taus, tsar, tuna, tuns, turn, urns, ursa, utas.
	-3 letters: ant, ars, art, nus, nut, ran, ras, rat, run, rut, sat, sau, sun, tan, tar, tas, tau, tun, uns, urn, uta, uts.
	-4 letters: an, ar, as, at, na, nu, ta, un, us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-n-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: antrums, jurants, natures, nutrias, santour, santurs, saunter, truants, tundras, turbans, unsmart, unstrap.
	+2 letters: anestrus, antirust, centaurs, courants, currants, curtains, daunters, haunters, insurant, menstrua, natriums, naturals, naturism, naturist, neutrals, nutgrass, outearns, outranks, puritans, pursuant, quartans, quintars, rainouts, recusant, romaunts, rotundas, ruinates, santours, saturant, saunters, sauterne, tantrums, taunters, taurines, transude, uncrates, unearths, unitards, unstraps, untreads, uranites, urbanest, urbanist, urethans, urinates, vaunters.
	+3 letters: aeronauts, anestrous, antiquers, antirusts, antiserum, antitrust, antivirus, argentums, argonauts, arguments, assurgent, astronaut, bankrupts, braunites, breadnuts, calutrons, chaunters, coruscant, courantes, courantos, courtesan, denatures, durations, earthnuts, estuarine, figurants, flaunters, gauntries, guardants, hamstrung, indurates, insulator, insurants, menstrual, naturisms, naturists, nectarous, numerates, obscurant, outlearns, outrances, outranges, pasturing, quadrants, quarterns, quatrains, rainspout, rambutans, recusants, renatures, resultant, retinulas, ruminants, ruminates, runabouts, runagates, sanctuary, sarmentum, saturants, saturniid, saturnine, saturnism, sauntered, saunterer, sauternes, signature, stauncher, strangury, straphung, subaltern, suctorian, sunbather, supinator, surtaxing, sustainer, susurrant, trainfuls, transduce, transfuse, transmute, transuded, transudes, trapuntos, tribunals, truancies, truncates, turbinals, turbofans, turncoats, turnhalls, tyrannous, uncreates, underacts, undereats, unfairest, unstabler, unthreads, unwariest, upstaring, urbanists, urbanites, urethanes, urticants.
	+4 letters: abruptions, abruptness, adventures, anatropous, anestruses, anthuriums, antiquarks, antiserums, artfulness, astronauts, augmenters, augmentors, banqueters, brontosaur, calentures, centaureas, centauries, courantoes, courtesans, crustacean, cystinuria, enraptures, entourages, enumerates, equestrian, eutherians, extraneous, frankfurts, furcations, gangbuster, garnitures, grandaunts, granulates, granulites, guarantees, guaranties, guarantors, hantavirus, heartburns, housetrain, incubators, incurvates, industrial, infuriates, insinuator, insularity, insulators, inundators, journalist, juniorates, keratinous, knackwurst, lacustrine, lubricants, lustrating, lustration, manicurist, manuscript, menstruate, miniatures, nasturtium, naturalise, naturalism, naturalist, neutralise, neutralism, neutralist, nonauthors, nucleators, numerators, nutgrasses, obscurants, orangutans, outlanders, outraising, outsoaring, outstaring, paintbrush, paramounts, purgations, puritanism, pursuivant, quadrantes, quantizers, raconteurs, rainspouts, raunchiest, reductants, resaluting, restaurant, resultants, resupinate, ruinations, ruminators, sanatorium, sanitarium, sanitorium, saturating, saturation, saturnalia, saturniids, saturnisms, saunterers, sauntering, scattergun, signatures, soundtrack, stramonium, subalterns, subcentral, subtrahend, suctorians, sunbathers, superagent, supergiant, supinators, supplanter, surfactant, sustainers, suzerainty, tarantulas, tarpaulins, thysanuran, transduced, transducer, transduces, transfused, transfuses, transmuted, transmutes, transudate, transuding, transvalue, treasonous, treasuring, tribunates, truantries, turbinates, turnabouts, turntables, ultradense, ultrasonic, ultrasound, unactorish, unartistic, unclearest, undercoats, underpants, underparts, underrates, understand, understate, undertakes, undertaxes, unitarians, unpastoral, unreadiest, unsanitary, unsaturate, unsteadier, unstrained, unstrapped, unwreathes, upstarting, uraninites, urbanistic, urbanities, urinations, usurpation, utterances, wanderlust.
	+5 letters: abjurations, accruements, adjurations, adulterants, adventurers, adventuress, adventurism, adventurist, adventurous, aeronautics, allurements, anfractuous, antinatures, antiquaries, antiseizure, antitruster, aquatinters, astronautic, attenuators, auctioneers, austereness, authorising, aventurines, bladdernuts, brontosaurs, brutalising, buccinators, construable, consummator, contrarious, coruscating, coruscation, cotransduce, counteracts, countryseat, crustaceans, curtainless, cystinurias, denaturants, disturbance, draughtsman, draughtsmen, enumerators, enunciators, equestrians, eructations, euphoriants, extenuators, exurbanites, figurations, fluorinates, fruitarians, frustrating, frustration, gangbusters, graduations, granulators, grubstaking, headhunters, houseparent, housetrains, inaugurates, inculcators, indurations, industrials, innumerates, inoculators, insalubrity, inscrutable, inscrutably, insinuators, insufflator, intercampus, intersexual, interurbans, intravenous, intriguants, journalists, juggernauts, knackwursts, laundrettes, laundromats, laureations, lustrations, manicurists, manuscripts, maturations, measurement, menstruated, menstruates, mensuration, miniaturist, morulations, multigrains, nasturtiums, natatoriums, natriureses, natriuresis, naturalised, naturalises, naturalisms, naturalists, naturalizes, naturalness, naturopaths, neutralised, neutralises, neutralisms, neutralists, neutralizes, neutralness, nitrofurans, numerations, nunciatures, nurturances, nutcrackers, obscurantic, obscuration, obturations, outbargains, outdoorsman, outgenerals, outsavoring, outsmarting, outstarting, outswearing, outwardness, pancratiums, parturients, pastureland, pentamerous, precautions, procrustean, prognathous, protohumans, punctuators, puritanisms, pursuivants, purtenances, quantifiers, quarantines, quarterings, quartersawn, quaternions, questionary, reacquaints, readjusting, rearguments, refutations, regulations, rejuvenates, reluctances, remunerates, renunciates, reputations, restaurants, resultantly, returnables, roundabouts, roundtables, ruminations, rusticating, rustication, sanatoriums, sanctuaries, sanitariums, sanitoriums, saturations, saturnalian, saturnalias, sauerbraten, scatterguns, seminatural, septenarius, singularity, soundtracks, sporulating, sporulation, squattering, sternutator, stramoniums, strangulate, stranguries, subcontract, subcontrary, subinterval, subordinate, subornation, subrational, subrogating, subrogation, substandard, subterminal, subtracting, subtraction, subtrahends, suburbanite, superagents, superaltern, supergiants, superjacent, supernatant, supernation, supernature, supertanker, supplanters, suppressant, suppurating, suppuration, surfactants, surrogating, surveillant, suspiration, susurration, tambourines, tearfulness, thysanurans, tourmalines, tournaments, tranquilest, transducers, transducing, transfigure, transfusing, transfusion, transhumant, translucent, transmuting, transsexual, transudates, transuranic, transvalued, transvalues, truncations, turnarounds, tyrannosaur, tyrannously, ulcerations, ultrasonics, ultrasounds, unabsorbent, unaspirated, unassertive, uncastrated, unchristian, unclarities, uncustomary, underreacts, understands, understated, understates, undertakers, unharvested, unobservant, unrealistic, unrealities, unresistant, unrestraint, unsaturated, unsaturates, unseaworthy, unseparated, unspiritual, unstartling, unstrapping, untarnished, untraversed, urtications, usurpations, vanguardist, voluntaries, voluntarism, voluntarist, wanderlusts.
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Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	See planet, table. (references)
Health	The sixth planet in order from the sun. It is one of the five outer planets of the solar system. Its twelve natural satellites include Phoebe and Titan. (references)
Literature	Saturn or Kronos [Time ] devoured all his children except Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto. Jupiter means air, Neptune water, and Pluto the grave. These Time cannot consume. Saturn is a very evil planet to be born under. "The children of the sayd Saturne shall be great jangeleres and chyders ... and they will never forgyve tyll they be revenged of theyr quarell." (Compost of Ptholomeus. Saturn with the ancient alchemists, designated lead. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Space	Sixth planet from the sun, a gas giant or Jovian planet. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SATURN	English	European Association for Flexible and Distance Learning in Europe	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Exactly! And now, now Saturn. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Saturn 3. When they want to give the Solar System -- (Saturn 3; writing credit: Martin Amis; John Barry) You know, Blue Moon burger, Saturn rings and a Mercury milkshake for $3.99. (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg) You've never seen anything til you've seen the Sun through the rings of Saturn! (The Incredible Melting Man; writing credit: William Sachs)
Lyrics	Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon,Miranda and ("Astronomy domine"; performing artist: Pink Floyd)
Movie/TV Titles	Destination Saturn (1966) Saturn Awards (1997) Die Ringe des Saturn (1992) Saturn Awards (1981)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Haynes Saturn 1991-1999 (reference) Saturn Automotive Repair Manual/1991 Thru 1996 All Models (Haynes Automotive Repair Manual Series) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Saturn 3 (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Return of Saturn (reference) South Saturn Delta (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Sega Saturn video game system (reference) Aurora Technologies 4-Port DB25M B.O.B. with 4 Ports Rs422/485 For Apollo and Saturn (reference) SATURN 2520P PCI CONTROLLER FOR (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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	Cassini Saturn Probe Undergoes Preflight Testing.Credit: NASA.		Static Test Firing of Saturn V S-1C Stage.Credit: NASA.
	In honor of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's eighth anniversary, we have gift-wrapped Saturn in ...Credit: NASA.		The Hubble telescope has captured snapshots of Saturn with its rings nearly edge-on to our ...Credit: NASA.
	Black and white images of five smaller satellites of Saturn.Credit: NASA.		Individual frames for each of the six planets imaged, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.Credit: NASA.
	Full-color view of Saturn and its rings.Credit: NASA.		Hubble Space Telescope image of a storm on Saturn.Credit: NASA.
	False-color view of Saturn and its rings.Credit: NASA.		Infrared image of Saturn taken by HST's NICMOS instrument.Credit: NASA.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	New Zealand	Saturn Communications (owned by United Global Communications through Austar United Communications Ltd) was the first hybrid fiber-coaxial telecommunication company in New Zealand. (references)
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Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	91.11%	82	36,594
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.22%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.22%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	2.22%	2	245,945
Noun (common)	2.22%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	90	N/A

Expressions using "Saturn": line of Saturn ♦ salt of Saturn ♦ Saturn red. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Saturn": saturn-day, Saturn-neptune, Saturn-pluto, saturn-skimming.
	Ending with "Saturn": Sun-saturn.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
saturn	6,415
saturn car	959
saturn recall	707
saturn vue	674
saturn planet	597
saturn ion	414
sailor saturn	309
sega saturn	293
saturn body kit	262
saturn part	252
saturn performance	233
saturn canada	206
saturn dealer	203
saturn automobile	203
saturn performance part	166
saturn auto	151
picture of saturn	114
saturn sc2	102
saturn extended warranty	97
saturn dealerships	94
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "Saturn": saturnalia, saturnalian, saturnalianly, saturnalias, saturniid, saturniids, saturnine, saturnism, saturnisms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Saturn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jastrun, Saadun, Sadourny, Sajuin, Satu, satur, satura, saturd. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Saturn

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Saturn

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