Question

What number is the planet Saturn from the Sun ?

Answer 1

Hint: The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that directly or indirectly orbit it. The eight planets are the largest of the objects that orbit the Sun directly, with the dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies making up the rest. Two of the natural satellites that orbit the Sun indirectly are larger than the smallest planet.

Complete answer:
Saturn is a gas giant that is mainly made up of hydrogen and helium. It doesn't have a distinct surface, but it does have a solid heart. Saturn is an oblate spheroid, which means that due to its rotation, it is flattened at its poles and bulges at its equator. It has a density of one-eighth that of Earth and a radius roughly nine times that of the Earth.

Saturn has a normal orbit around the Sun, like Jupiter and most of the other planets, with a minor eccentricity (non circularity) and inclination to the ecliptic, the axis of Earth's orbit, and a prograde (in the same direction as the Sun) motion.

Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system in terms of mass and size, and the sixth closest to the Sun in terms of distance. Saturn is visible in the night sky as a non-twinkling point of light to the unaided eye. The world, encircled by its majestic rings, is probably the most sublime object in the solar system as viewed through even a small telescope.

Hence, Saturn is the sixth closest planet to the Sun.

Note: It is important to remember the order of planets to answer this type of question. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the planets to their distance from the Sun. Remember that Saturn is the minor dense planet and the second-largest planet in the solar system.