Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, named after the Roman god of agriculture and identified with the Greek god Cronus. Saturn is the second-largest planet in the solar system, with a diameter of 119,000 km (74,000 mi), a mass 95 times the mass of Earth, an orbital period of 29.5 years, and an average distance of around 1.4 billion km (900 million mi).

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