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Score breakdown
· 5 badges
79 pts · Anomaly
Anomaly120 pts → Mythic
Major planet+40
Showpiece ring system+14
Sprawling moon system+12
Has a proper name+8
Has moons+5
Total score79
41 more points to reach Mythic.
Badges
🔶Major planet· +40
🏷️Has a proper name· +8
💿Showpiece ring system· +14
🌙Has moons· +5
🌜Sprawling moon system· +12
✨ Trivia
What it actually is
🛰️A system of its own. At least 274 moons orbit it — more a miniature solar system than a planet, and the count still climbs as surveys get sharper.
Sense of scale
🌍Against Earth. It is 9.1 times wider than Earth, and about 764 Earths would fit inside it.
🗺️Ground to cover. Its whole surface adds up to about 42.6 billion km² — roughly 286.2 times Earth's dry land.
🚶Walk around it. Walking right round its equator, eight hours a day, would take about 25 years.
Standing on it
💍Rings overhead. Its rings are billions of icy fragments, most no bigger than a house, spread into a sheet only tens of metres thick.
By the numbers
📐Size. About 116.5 thousand km across.
What's in a name
🏷️Named. Notable enough to have earned a proper name, not just a catalogue number.
Properties
aphelion au
10.0503
color
#e3c87b
diameter km
116464
eccentricity
0.0539
inclination
2.486
name
Saturn
named
yes
num moons
274
orbital period days
10759.22
perihelion au
9.023
radius km
58232
rings
yes
semi major au
9.5367
About Saturn
Saturn is an anomaly planet. It completes an orbit every 10,759.22 days and swings within 9.023 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
At least 274 moons orbit it — more a miniature solar system than a planet, and the count still climbs as surveys get sharper.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Saturn is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Saturn is an anomaly planet
Saturn scores 79 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 41 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Major planet, Has a proper name, Showpiece ring system, Has moons and Sprawling moon system — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.
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