Basic Titan parameters

Basic Titan info:

  • Saturn's largest moon, by far. Titan is about the same size as Ganymede (a little bigger than Europa).

  • Formation: circum-Saturn disk?

  • Titan's orbital period is 16 Earth days (no orbital resonance/tidal locking).

  • Mass = 1.3 x 10^26 g (0.02 Earth masses or about 1.2 Moon masses). Bigger than the planet Mercury!

    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090319.html

    (Enceladus, Diona, Titan, Mimas)

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