Titan (muin)
Titan in naitural colour. The thick atmosphere is orange due tae a dense organonitrogen haze.
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| Discovery | |
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| Discovered bi | Christiaan Huygens |
| Discovery date | March 25, 1655 |
| Designations | |
| Pronunciation |  i/ˈtaɪtən/ |
| Saturn VI | |
| Adjectives | Titanean, Titanian[1] |
| Orbital chairactereestics[2] | |
| Periapsis | 1186680 km |
| Apoapsis | 1257060 km |
| 1221870 km | |
| Eccentricity | 0.0288 |
| 15.945 d | |
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Average orbital speed
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5.57 km/s (calculated) |
| Inclination | 0.34854° (tae Saturn's equator) |
| Satellite o | Saturn |
| Pheesical chairacteristics | |
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Mean radius
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2575.5±2.0 km (0.404 Yirds,[3] 1.480 Moons) |
| 8.3×107 km2 (0.163 Yirds) | |
| Vollum | 7.16×1010 km3 (0.066 Yirds) (3.3 Muins) |
| Mass | (1.3452±0.0002)×1023 kg (0.0225 Yirds)[3] (1.829 Muins) |
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Mean density
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1.8798±0.0044 g/cm3[3] |
| 1.352 m/s2 (0.14 g) (0.85 Muins) | |
| 2.639 km/s (1.11 Muins) | |
| Synchronous | |
| Zero | |
| Albedo | 0.22[4] |
| Temperatur | 93.7 K (−179.5 °C)[5] |
| 8.2[6] tae 9.0 | |
| Atmosphere | |
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Surface pressur
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146.7 kPa (1.41 atm) |
| Composeetion bi vollum | Variable[7][8] Stratosphere: 98.4% nitrogen (N2), 1.4% methane (CH4), 0.2% hydrogen (H2); Lawer troposphere: 95.0% N2, 4.9% CH4 |
Titan (or Saturn VI) is the lairgest muin o Saturn.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Titanian" is the adjectival form o baith Titan an Uranus's muin Titania. Houever, whereas the latter mey be pronoonced wi an ah vouel (/tᵻˈtɑːnjən/), the form for Titan is anly pronoonced wi an ay vouel: /taɪˈteɪniən/. The less common "Titanean" /taɪtəˈniːən/ refers anly tae Titan.
- ↑ Unless itherwise specified: "JPL HORIZONS solar system data and ephemeris computation service". Solar System Dynamics. NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jacobson, R. A.; Antreasian, P. G.; Bordi, J. J.; Criddle, K. E.; Ionasescu, R.; Jones, J. B.; Mackenzie, R. A.; Meek, M. C.; Parcher, D.; Pelletier, F. J.; Owen, Jr., W. M.; Roth, D. C.; Roundhill, I. M.; Stauch, J. R. (December 2006). "The Gravity Field of the Saturnian System from Satellite Observations and Spacecraft Tracking Data". The Astronomical Journal. 132 (6): 2520–2526. Bibcode:2006AJ....132.2520J. doi:10.1086/508812.
- ↑ Williams, D. R. (Februar 22, 2011). "Saturnian Satellite Fact Sheet". NASA. Retrieved 2015-04-22.
- ↑ Mitri, G.; Showman, Adam P.; Lunine, Jonathan I.; Lorenz, Ralph D. (2007). "Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan" (PDF). Icarus. 186 (2): 385–394. Bibcode:2007Icar..186..385M. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2006.09.004.
- ↑ "Classic Satellites of the Solar System". Observatorio ARVAL. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ↑ Niemann, H. B.; et al. (2005). "The abundances of constituents of Titan's atmosphere from the GCMS instrument on the Huygens probe". Nature. 438 (7069): 779–784. Bibcode:2005Natur.438..779N. PMID 16319830. doi:10.1038/nature04122.
- ↑ Coustenis, pp. 154–155
Bibliografie[eedit | eedit soorce]
- Coustenis, Athéna; Taylor, F. W. (2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-270-501-3.
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