Saturn
Less dense than water, and wearing a ring system only 10 to 100 m thick.
Where it is right now
Saturn is in Pisces, 8.97 AU away, magnitude 0.5.
Computed for 2 August 2026, 17:00 UTC, and recomputed at least hourly. This page is cached, so treat the line above as accurate to the hour rather than to the second. The map shows the live position.
Position from astronomy-engine's VSOP87-derived series, accurate to about an arcsecond.
Facts
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- Mean radius
- 58,232 kmSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Density
- 0.687 g/cm3, the only planet that would floatSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Rings
- about 280,000 km across but only tens of metres thickSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Year
- 29.4 Earth yearsSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
- Orbit
- 9.537 AU average, eccentricity 0.054Source: NASA/JPL Approximate Positions of the Major Planets (J2000)
- Ring tilt
- edge-on from Earth roughly every 15 years, and nearly invisible thenSource: NASA/JPL Planetary Fact Sheet
Physical size
- Mean radius
- 58,232 km
- Diameter
- 116,464 km across
Orbit
Elements are heliocentric, referred to the J2000.0 ecliptic.
- Average distance from the Sun
- 9.537 AU (1,426.7 million km)
- Closest and furthest
- 9.023 AU (1,349.8 million km) to 10.050 AU (1,503.5 million km)
- Eccentricity
- 0.0539, slightly elliptical
- Inclination to the ecliptic
- 2.49 degrees
- Orbital period
- 29.5 years (10,759 days)
- Longitude of ascending node
- 113.66 degrees
- Argument of periapsis
- 338.94 degrees
- Mean anomaly at J2000.0
- 317.36 degrees
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