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Exploring Saturn’s Moons 3 Moon Millions of km Tarvos 18.56 Mundilfari 18.7258 Jarnsaxa 18.557 Greip 18.0657 Tarqeq 17.9 Siarnaq 17.776 Skoll 17.473800 Erriapus 17.237 Bebhionn 17.2 Hyrrokkin 18.168 Saturn has 64 moons that range in size from Aegaeon, which is barely over 1 kilometer across, to Titan which is 5151 km in diameter and is about the same size as the planet Mercury! The farthest moons of Saturn orbit at distances of nearly 25 million km from Saturn. By comparison, Mercury orbits about 35 million km from our Sun. Problem 1 – Order the moons in terms of their increasing distance from Saturn by sorting the decimal values from smallest to largest. Problem 2 – How much farther away from Saturn is the moon Skoll than Erriapus in A) millions of kilometers? B) in kilometers? Problem 3 – What is the span of distances between the closest moon in this list and the farthest moon in this list A) in millions of kilometers? B) in kilometers? Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov Answer Key 3 Problem 1 – Order the moons in terms of their increasing distance from Saturn by sorting the decimal values from smallest to largest. Moon Millions of km Tarvos 18.56 Bebhionn 17.2 Mundilfari 18.7258 Erriapus 17.237 Jarnsaxa 18.557 Skoll 17.473800 Greip 18.0657 Siarnaq 17.776 Tarqeq 17.9 Tarqeq 17.9 Siarnaq 17.776 Greip 18.0657 Skoll 17.473800 Hyrrokkin 18.168 Erriapus 17.237 Jarnsaxa 18.557 Bebhionn 17.2 Tarvos 18.56 Hyrrokkin 18.168 Mundilfari 18.7258 Problem 2 – How much farther away from Saturn is the moon Skoll than Erriapus in A) millions of kilometers? B) in kilometers? Answer: A) Erriapus = 17.237 Skoll=17.473800 Difference = 0.2368 million km. B) 0.2368 million km = 236,800 km. Problem 3 – What is the span of distances between the closest moon in this list and the farthest moon in this list A) in millions of kilometers? B) in kilometers? Answer A) 18.7258 – 17.2 = 1.5258 million km B) 1,525,800 km. Space Math http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov .

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