Saturn - The Ring Planet

Today in Astronomy History
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September 6, 3761 BCE
Origin of the Hebrew Calendar

September 6, 3114 BCE
According to the proleptic Julian calendar the current era in the Maya Long Count Calendar started.

September 6, 1997
Brett J. Gladman, Philip D. Nicholson, Joseph A. Burns, and John J. Kavelaars using the 200-inch Hale telescope discovers the Uranian moons: Caliban and Sycorax.

Welcome to The Ring Planet
A website about the planet Saturn

Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn (father of Zeus). Saturn is one of the most magnificient planetary views in the sky. Saturn is a gas giant with a ring of moonlettes which is easily visable to binoculars or telescopic viewing. The Rings of Saturn were first observed by Galileo Galilei with his telescope in 1610.