Saturn’s Moon Janus is observed to orbit the planet with period

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Saturn’s Moon Janus is observed to orbit the planet with period 0.695 days, grazing the planet with an orbital radius only 2.64 times the radius of the planet itself. Use this information to find the mass of Saturn. Express your answer as a multiple of the mass of Earth M⊕ rounded to two significant digits.

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