When, how and by who was the planet saturn discovered?

Answer 1

Saturn was discovered in prehistoric times because it is visible with the naked eye.
Galileo was the first to observe it with a telescope in 1610, the image through his telescope was strange but did not know why.
In 1659 Christiaan Huygens figured out that Saturn had rings.

Answer 2

Nearly all ancient human cultures created names for, and stories about, the Sun, the Moon, the planets and stars. Like so many things in history, the naming of the planets happened by accident. The ancient Babylonians recognized five specks of light moving across the night skies long before the Greeks and the Romans did. They developed a belief
that these specks were the moving images of five of their most important gods. Not surprisingly, they named the moving lights after these gods.
When the Greeks (probably the Pythagoreans, in the fifth century BC) came into contact with the Babylonian skylore, they assigned to the same five moving lights the names of those Greek gods who seemed to correspond to the appropriate Babylonian deities most closely. Thus we
got the Greek names of the five planets Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares, Zeus, and Kronos. In due course (perhaps in the second century BC) the Romans became acquainted with the Greek astronomy and the Greek planetary
names. As must have been natural, the Romans rendered the Greek names to fit their own gods. This is how we obtained Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, the names we still use two thousand years later.

Facts on saturn
Distance from the Sun: 1,426,725,400 km
Equatorial Radius: 60,268 km
Volume: 827,130,000,000,000 km3
Mass: 568,510,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg


Discovered By - Known by the Ancients

Date of Discovery - Unknown

Namesake: Roman god of agriculture

Saturns Moons
1. Albiorix
2. Atlas
3. Calypso
4. Daphnis
5. Dione
6. Enceladus
7. Epimetheus
8. Erriapo
9. Helene
10. Hyperion
11. Iapetus
12. Ijiraq
13. Janus
14. Kiviuq
15. Mimas
16. Methone
17. Mundilfari
18. Paaliaq
19. Narvi
20. Pan
21. Pallene
22. Pandora
23. Phoebe
24. Polydeuces
25. Prometheus
26. Rhea
27. Siarnaq
28. Skathi
29. Suttungr
30. Tarvos
31. Telesto
32. Tethys
33. Thrymr
34. Titan
35. Ymir
36. S/2004 S7
37. S/2004 S8
38. S/2004 S9
39. S/2004 S10
40. S/2004 S11
41. S/2004 S12
42. S/2004 S13
43. S/2004 S14
44. S/2004 S15
45. S/2004 S16
46. S/2004 S17
47. S/2004 S18
48. S/2004 S19
49. S/2006 S1
50. S/2006 S2
51. S/2006 S3
52. S/2006 S4
53. S/2006 S5
54. S/2006 S6
55. S/2006 S7
56. S/2006 S8

Answer 3

Saturn (planet), sixth planet from the Sun, and the second-largest in the solar system. Saturn's most distinctive feature is its ring system, which was first observed in 1610 by Galileo, using one of the first telescopes. He did not realize that the rings are separate from the body of the planet, and so he described them as handles (ansae). The first person to describe the rings correctly was the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. In 1655, desiring further time to verify his explanation without losing his claim to priority, Huygens wrote an anagram, the letters of which, when properly rearranged, formed a Latin sentence that reads in translation “It is girdled by a thin flat ring, nowhere touching, inclined to the ecliptic.” The rings are named in order of their discovery, and from the planet outwards they are the D, C, B, A, F, G, and E rings. They are now known to comprise more than 100,000 individual thin rings, each of which circles the planet.

Answer 4

Hmm, summing it all up, and being very brief, I would say that its a man (Galilleo) who saw it in Roman Times with a telescope. and, my guess to the wierd image through the telescope is maybe because one of the glass pieces used to magnify your sight was not alligned with the rest, producing a narrower image of whatever the viewer sees.

PS: everyone in the northern hemisphere, ppl say you can see Saturn pretty good t'night! ;)

Answer 5

saturn was found in uranus last night by your proctologist.