Editing Saturn (section)

==Name and symbol==
Saturn is named after the Roman [[Saturn (mythology)|god of wealth and agriculture]], who was the father of the god Jupiter. Its [[astronomical symbol]] {{nowrap|([[file:Saturn symbol (fixed width).svg|16px|♄]])}} has been traced back to the Greek [[Oxyrhynchus Papyri]], where it can be seen to be a Greek [[kappa]]-[[rho]] ligature with a [[Scribal abbreviation#Forms|horizontal stroke]], as an abbreviation for ''Κρονος'' ([[Cronus]]), the Greek name for the planet ([[File:Saturn symbol (late classical and medieval mss).png|41px]]).<ref name="jones-1999">{{cite book
  | title=Astronomical papyri from Oxyrhynchus
  | last=Jones
  | first=Alexander
  | date=1999
  | pages=62–63
  | publisher=American Philosophical Society
 | isbn=9780871692337
  | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8MokzymQ43IC
  | quote=
| access-date=28 September 2021
| archive-date=30 April 2021
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430052052/https://books.google.com/books?id=8MokzymQ43IC
  | url-status=live
  }}</ref> It later came to look like a lower-case Greek [[eta]], with the cross added at the top in the 16th century to Christianize this pagan symbol.

The Romans named the seventh day of the week [[Saturday]], ''Sāturni diēs'', "Saturn's Day", for the planet Saturn.<ref name=days>{{citation |last=Falk |first=Michael |title=Astronomical Names for the Days of the Week |url=http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1999JRASC..93..122F |journal=Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |volume=93 |pages=122–133 |date=June 1999 |bibcode=1999JRASC..93..122F |access-date=18 November 2020 |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225172054/http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1999JRASC..93..122F |url-status=live }}</ref>