Contains:  Solar system body or event
Jupiter, autonm

Jupiter

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Newcastle, UK

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.

Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen, but helium constitutes one quarter of its mass and one tenth of its volume. It likely has a rocky core of heavier elements, but like the other giant planets, Jupiter lacks a well-defined solid surface. 

The average distance between Jupiter and the Sun is 778 million km (about 5.2 times the average distance between Earth and the Sun, or 5.2 AU) and it completes an orbit every 11.86 years.

The distance of Earth to Jupiter at it's closest is 365 million miles. 
If you could drive a car going 60 miles an hour to Jupiter, it would take you about 950 YEARS to get there!

Comments

Revisions

  • Jupiter, autonm
    Original
  • Final
    Jupiter, autonm
    B

B

Description: Crop Version

Uploaded: ...

Histogram

Jupiter, autonm