JUPITER ROCKS
Created by: John Black
WHAT IS JUPITER LIKE?
• Our planet Jupiter is very cold!
• In fact it is NEGATIVE 160 degrees (-234 F)
• Our planet has 67 moons! But only 18 moons are named!
• One year on Jupiter is 4,329 Earth days.
• One day on Jupiter is 9.92 Earth hours.
DISTANCE FROM THE SUN
• Our planet is the fifth planet from the sun.
• Jupiter is 778,330,000 km from the sun!
• Or it is 5.2 AU’s
SIZE OF JUPITER
• Our planet is 142,984 km in diameter.
• If you take away the sun then Jupiter has half of the remaining mass!
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Jupiter would have an equal amount of mass as all the planets combined!
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
JUPITER!!
• If Jupiter was 80 times LARGER it would than be a star! (that means our
diameter would be 11,438,720)
• Our magnetosphere extends more than 650 million km past Saturn's orbit!
• Jupiter also has 63 known satellites!
SOURCES
• http://nineplanets.org
• Planetary Science resources by: Delta Education (page 87)