We do not celebrate Saturn enough. This day was literally created because of that planet. Saturn is my secret favourite planet, now that Pluto is no longer considered.
Jupiter is cool – big and boisterous with a wind forever and moons a million. Uranus likes to be all tiltawhirl with its pal, Neptune, who likes twisting against the grain.
These are cool. All our planets are cool. Except Venus, which is kind of a roasting greenhouse, but cool in a sunglasses and mortgage paying, kind of way.
Saturn though. Man, Saturn. Not just a pretty face with a headband of cosmic magnificence, no, this orb takes twentyseven years to orbit but ten hours to day.
It is literally the longest helter skelter or one of those whirl pattern things from the eighties where you stuck a pen in a cog and revolved around as if a drawing machine.
Titan is Saturn’s best friend and bigger than Mercury, and Mercury is a planet, so Titan is ludicrous!
And you get yourself a couple of big swimming pools (they would have to be larger than Olympic size for this to work) but Saturn would float in water!
Let us celebrate this glorious celestial body. Thank you Saturn!