Saturn Definition and 82 Threads

I am currently trying to make a game about Saturn and came across the xkcd article about the Interplanetary Cessna. Could their assessment of Saturn's atmosphere be incomplete in this context? Saturn has a relatively dense atmosphere, even tho its mean molecular mass is just 2.07. At the...

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad65fc How it is reported in the media - Saturn throws comet out of solar system at 6,700 mph (10800 km/h): What astronomers think happened...

Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title with 62 newfound satellites, bringing total to 145 https://www.space.com/saturn-moon-king-62-newfound-satellites Astronomers have discovered 62 new moons orbiting the ringed planet Saturn, bringing to total to 145 Moons, with 121 irregular moons and 24 regular...

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-december-jupiter-saturn-planet-middle.html I do not know if we have enough hobby astronomers here, but the above calls for a photo competition. But in any case, don't miss the opportunity if you're a stargazer!

I understand that there are a few of these still out there that have basically become Earth-crossing asteroids. It would seem that they wouldn't be as bright as the recent Chelyabinsk meteor.

Yup, they all appear together pre-dawn on March 18 to the SE. The planets hang out together for a week or so, while the Moon moves on. https://www.news4jax.com/weather/2020/03/16/you-are-missing-planet-palooza-if-you-dont-look-up-the-next-few-days/

I'm writing an SF novel with FTL travel. In my story, there are different motion regimes, including superluminal, based on this https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333614143_A_GENERAL_LOCAL_CAUSALITY_PRINCIPLE_OF_SPACE-TIME_A_PREPRINT I found. My story: in our (c1) regime, whatever...

Pardon the very naive question, but why does the atmosphere in these gas giants seem to have, from a distance, a very clear, sharp and distinctive boundary? When one looks at Earth's atmosphere from space, it seems to have a fuzzy bluish boundary, gracefully vanishing into the black. I read...

What do the rings look like from an observer on the planet? Are they visible, or too "edge on" to see? Or maybe the sky is too bright?

I wish to create a tree of saturn (crystal formation using lead acetate and zinc), however I have very little experience in chemistry and I know lead acetate is toxic but I do not know how toxic. I know how to make the tree but I want to know if I should or if there is a safer alternative that I...

This article suggests that exoplanets are the same size and have equal orbital spacing ,so what is different from our solar system. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180109141918.htm An international research team led by Université de Montréal astrophysicist Lauren Weiss has...

Homework Statement Using only a telescope and a stopwatch, find the mass of Saturn.[/B] (This question may or may not make any sense at all, it was a theoretical lab that my professor said without giving us a chance to copy it down and I am trying to recall the question from memory) If it is...

Cosmic Kittens: Saturn Features Get Feline Names By Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer | September 25, 2017 07:00am ET I f you know anything about Saturn, you probably know that it's a planet surrounded by rings. But did you know that it's also surrounded by cats? NASA's Cassini...

I thought this is interesting (and new)! Any thoughts or insights? E.g. I liked the "... as Cassini becomes part of the planet itself ..." on 3' 12'' ...

Hi everyone, I have created a simulation of the major bodies in the Solar System, using the exact positions, velocities, and masses etc. at midnight on Jan 10 (as provided by the NASA HORIZONS project). Using Newtonian gravity I numerically simulate the forces between all the bodies (with a...

It's hard to beleive, it looks so uniform and like it was drawn. https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/7547_PIA20506_full.jpg Webpage of photo: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7547/?category=images

I'm using Chaisson'/McMillan's "Astronomy, a Beginner's Guide to the Universe"/7th Edition In Chapter 7, it describes the gas giants, and says that Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune all have "86% Hydrogen, 14% Helium" in their atmospheres, while Saturn has about 92% hydrogen, and 7% Helium, in its...

by Ken Croswell Bad news for any slackers on Saturn: The days on the ringed planet are shorter than the number you'll find in most books--6 minutes briefer, to be exact. The faster spin drastically changes how scientists think Saturn's winds blow. Full story: Science.

Homework Statement The radius of Saturn (from the center to just above the atmosphere) is 60,300 km (60300✕10^3 m), and its mass is 570✕10^24 kg. An object is launched straight up from just above the atmosphere of Saturn. (a) What initial speed is needed so that when the object is far from...

Life on Earth uses water as a solvent, but scientists have long speculated about the possibility of life existing in non-aqueous environments. Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has seas of liquid methane, and scientists at Cornell wanted to test whether structures similar to cell membranes could...

Homework Statement There is a ring outside of Saturn. In order to distinguish if the ring is actually a part of Saturn or is instead part of the satellites of Saturn, we need to know the relation between the velocity v of each layer in the ring and the distance R of the layer to the center of...

Why if we put Saturn in water, it will float?

Hey Guys! I've been doing a few equations in regards to planetary escape velocity and gravitational force. The below links have the escape velocity of listed planet on the left side of the board, the gravitational force between the Sun and given planet on the right side. In the middle of the...

[b]1. the distance between the sun and Saturn is approx. 8.9x10^8 mi. The speed of light is approx. 1.9x10^5 miles per second. How long does it take light to travel from the sun to Saturn? Answer in units of seconds. Homework Equations [b]3. The Attempt at a Solution I have...

Hi all! I took a couple of pictures of the Moon at night on 16 May (with an Olympus VR-340 compact digital camera, 10x optical zoom, 4x digital zoom). I used a very small tripod mounted on a microphone stand :biggrin:, and I decided to try out the camera on a star just for fun. First I tried on...

A quick question I hope: What would I see from Earth if I sent a rocket to Saturn at nearly the speed of light? If the rocket travels a million miles at a thousand miles an hour I will see it arrive in 1000 hours. If the rocket travels at nearing the speed of light I won't see it arrive for...

Hey everyone. I was hoping I could get some assistance locating some material to research on the launch of the Saturn V rocket. I'm doing my honors project for calculus 1 on rocket launches, and I'm going to be focusing on the Saturn V. I'm going to do an in depth analysis on the forces...

Hi! I've been trying to model the Saturn V's velocity using Tsiolkovsky's ideal rocket equation, and in the process, I think I may have made a mistake with regards to the specific impulse? I've come up with the following equation, taking the change in gravity into account. (a(t) is the...

Here's the Cassini image from Saturn. Suppose I map an x-y coordinate system on that picture with the Earth (that pale blue dot down there) at the origin. Without looking at anything else, can you place points at the perimeter of the square picture, giving the angle pointing to where the sun...

Hey, was just wondering, yesterday I was looking through my 10x50 binocular and used an app to locate Saturn. What I was seeing in the binocular was a burning ball (It was really bright compared to the stars.) and there was a sort of blue color around the bright ball. Would you think that was...

Current event Nasa satellite Cassini spotted a North pole locked hurricane 2000 km wide. http://theconversation.com/nasa-pics-reveal-huge-rose-hurricane-on-saturn-13823

Hi, Has anyone in recent times reproduced the experiments of Kristian Birkeland, WRT to his Saturn effect using his terrella? If so what were the conditions? Adam

After waiting about 10 days for clear weather last night and this morning I spent several hours testing a new observational rig: a very heavy high power set of binoculars mounted on a heavy tripod with a geared turret. Conditions were good: clear, still and cold (-4 degrees C) but with some...

Hi I came across this excellent forum :) I am trying to figure out the solar wobble. When only looking at the Sun+Jupiter+Saturn, my intuitive interpretation is that the Sun will go faster/wobble more at Jupiter-Saturn-conjunction, and slower at oppositions. Is this correct? If so, there...

A large storm has been studied since December 2010. New research indicates the storm is stronger than first thought. Associated with the storm is a huge volume of ethylene, with an amount roughly 100 times through possible on Saturn. The source of the ethylene is unknown. NASA's...

Quick question that maybe someone here could answer. I could probably dig up a bunch of math equations and answer it too, but I'm guessing someone here already has a good idea about the answer. Placing the Sun at the center of a sphere whose radius is equal to the distance of the Sun to...

The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia Exoplanet Orbit Database | Exoplanet Data Explorer Numerous planets outside the Solar System have been discovered, and for some curious reason, a large number of them are around Jupiter's mass, but much closer in than one would expect. The usual theory...

If I am in a spaceship and it begins a constant acceleration of 9.81 m/s^2, would I be able to stand up in the spaceship and it would feel the same as gravity? (This is assuming the fact that my feet were placed in the direction of the thrust source.) I've done some equations, and a ship...

titan, a moon of saturn, has a 16 day orbital period and an orbital radius of 1,222,000 km. what is the mass of saturn? my attempt: t = 2*pi*r^(3/2)/sqrt(g*m) t = 16 days = 1,382,400 s r = 1,222,000/2 km = 611,000,000 m 1,382,400 = 2*pi*611,000,000^(3/2)/sqrt(6.67e-11*m) => m =...

If you leave Earth traveling at .01c can you reach Saturn in 6 days? What type of presently conceptual craft could most realistically achieve this?

Okay, reeling from a defeat in the stellar ring with a self gravitating mass of gas that imploded at a massive temperature when all I wanted it to do was hang around nice and calmly while I put gravitating bodies in it...now I move on to a slightly more conventional model. I do plan to do most...

Don't remember seeing this. Does NASA do September fools jokes? I cannot imagine anything so CGI being for real.

hello everybody can anyone help me find saturn and Jupiter on a given night. i have a medium powered reflective telescope and i have to organize an astronomy night on the 3rd of june thanks.

wondering which eye piece is best to use with my 1100x120 reflector galileo ,all i get for image is white fuzzy circle

hi I am an astronomy nooby and i am trying to find saturn in my telescope, i don't know what seasons it is visible in, can someone help :D?

"NASA is releasing the first images and sounds of an electrical connection between Saturn and one of its moons. The data collected by the agency's Cassini spacecraft enable scientists to improve their understanding of the complex web of interaction between the planet and its numerous moons...

Why the plane of the rings is vertical to the rotation axis of Saturn? I don't think this is a coincidence, because the orbits of the 8 planets in our Solar System is roughly in a plane, and some galaxies are like a plate, so does the accretion plane of the black hole. But as we know...

HELP on a spacecraft mission to saturn for the injection velocity i beg you please Homework Statement on intial approach to Saturn, the spacecraft mass is 3500 kg. To enter orbit around Saturn , the vehicle has a 400N thrust primary propulsion engine, with a specific impulse of 310 sec...

Homework Statement The first stage of a Saturn V space vehicle consumes fuel at the rate of 47400 kg/s, with an exhaust speed of 2820 m/s. The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s2 . Calculate the thrust produced by these en- gines. Answer in units of N. (part 2 of 2) 10.0 points Note...

Hi, just found these forums, and they look very useful. I'm a second year Aerospace Engineering student, and as part of a project I'm modelling the first stage of a Saturn V rocket. I'm using a linear and non-linear model, and have all the equations sorted out. The only problem is I can't...