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What is the size of Saturn?

Answer 1

Alice Andrews

Equatorial diameter of Saturn is 120,000 kilometers.

POLar diameter is less than 108,000 km, according to BAA handbook data.

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Answer 2

Joseph Allen

Saturn, with an equatorial diameter of roughly 120,536 kilometers (74,898 miles), is the second largest planet in the Solar System and the sixth planet from the Sun.

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Answer 3

Emilia Acosta

The size of Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in our solar system, is approximately 9.5 times the diameter of Earth. Saturn has a diameter of about 116,464 kilometers (72,367 miles) at its equator and a polar diameter of about 108,728 kilometers (67,560 miles).

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