Created by: John BlackJUPITER ROCKS

• 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.

WHAT IS JUPITER LIKE?

• 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

DISTANCE FROM THE SUN

• Our planet is 142,984 km in diameter.

• If you take away the sun then Jupiter has half of the remaining mass!

• Jupiter would have an equal amount of mass as all the planets combined!

SIZE OF 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!

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT JUPITER!!

• http://nineplanets.org

• Planetary Science resources by: Delta Education (page 87)

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