Would Saturn float if it were in a bathtub?
Saturn in fiction
Would Saturn float if it were in a bathtub?
Imagine dropping a large balloon into a tub of water; it sinks because it's too dense. Now, think about dropping a massive, fluffy object instead.
Saturn, being less dense than water, would behave like that fluffy object. Its average density is much lower than water's, which is why it wouldn't sink if placed in water.
Example
A balloon floats because it's filled with air, which is less dense than water.
Remember this
Saturn's average density is less than water's density, so it would float.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Related concepts
Archimedes
Ever wondered why some things float while others sink?
Tardigrades can survive in space, boiling water, and temperatures near absolute zero
Can tiny creatures survive the harshest conditions on Earth and beyond?
Neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoon of their material would weigh about 6 billion tons
Neutron stars: teaspoon weighs ~6 billion tons
Sun
The Sun makes up 99.86% of all mass in the solar system
Supermassive black hole
How can a star's mass turn into a cosmic vacuum trap?
Stellar black hole
Ever wondered why nothing escapes a black hole's pull?
Swipe through 100 ML concepts daily
Open Pocket Polymath