Jupiter
About Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass nearly 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Its diameter is 11 times that of Earth and a tenth that of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm), with an orbital period of 11.86 years. It is the third-brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky, after the Moon and Venus, and has been observed since prehistoric times. Its name derives from that of Jupiter, the chief deity of ancient Roman religion.
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Jupiter is not mostly composed of gas but is in fact largely liquid hydrogen covered by gas clouds.
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More facts about Jupiter
In 1995 the spacecraft Galileo entered Jupiter's orbit just in time to witness a one-in-6,000-year event, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter.
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One of Jupiter's moons is Io, which is just volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes all the time.
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Jupiter and Saturn have differential spin, rotating at different speeds at different latitudes, because they are gas.
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All the planets are named after gods except Earth, and Jupiter's father is Saturn, the next planet out.
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