Titan

Saturn VI

Titan Statistics
 Discovered by Christiaan Huygens 
 Date of discovery 1655 
 Mass (kg) 1.35e+23 
 Mass (Earth = 1) 2.2590e-02 
 Equatorial radius (km) 2,575 
 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 4.0373e-01 
 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 1.88 
 Mean distance from Saturn (km) 1,221,850 
 Rotational period (days) 15.94542 
 Orbital period (days) 15.94542 
 Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 5.58 
 Orbital eccentricity 0.0292 
 Orbital inclination (degrees) 0.33 
 Escape velocity (km/sec) 2.65 
 Visual geometric albedo 0.21 
 Magnitude (Vo) 8.28 
 Mean surface temperature -178°C 
 Atmospheric pressure (bars) 1.5 

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