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Titan

Largest moon of Saturn

Also known as Saturn VI

Instance of: moon of Saturn
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2025-01-19
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Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest in the Solar System. It is the only moon that is known to have a dense atmosphere, and is the only known object in the Solar System besides Earth with clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid. Titan is one of seven gravitationally rounded moons of Saturn, and is the second-most distant among them. Frequently described as a planet-like moon, Titan is 48.16% larger in diameter than Earth's moon, and 80% more massive. It is the second-largest moon in the Solar System after Jupiter's Ganymede, and is larger than Mercury, and yet Titan is only 40% as massive as Mercury, because Mercury is mainly iron and rock, whereas Titan is mostly ice, which is less dense.

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Named after: titan
Orbits: Saturn
Discovered: March 25, 1655
Discovered by: Christiaan Huygens
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1.Stated in A Short History of Astronomy
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Mass: 134.518 yottagram
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1.ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?sat_phys_parRetrieved 2020-09-05
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Periapsis: 1,186,680 km
Apoapsis: 1,257,060 km
Density: 1.8798 g/cm³
Eccentricity: 0.0288
Semi-major axis: 1,221,870 km
Orbital period: 15.9454 days
Members / parts: lake of Titan
atmosphere of Titan
Highest point: Mithrim Montes
Radius: 2,574 km
Albedo: 0.22
Different from: Titan criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Titan
Titania
Has use: colonization of Titan nature of statement: expected
Has characteristic: life on Titan nature of statement: possibly
regular moon
Surface gravity: 1.354 metre per square second
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1.universeguide.com/planetmoon/184/titan#google_vignette
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Temperature: 93.7 K
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1.lpl.arizona.edu/~showman/publications/mitri-etal-2007-lakes.pdf
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Volume as quantity: 71.6B cubic kilometre

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