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Jupiter
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larger picture)
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| Jupiter
is the fifth planet from the Sun.
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weighs 2,093,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons and has
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a
diameter of 88,846 miles.
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One
day on Jupiter is 9.9 hours long.
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average distance of Jupiter from the Sun is 483.8
million miles.
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at times Jupiter is only 460,100,000 miles from the Sun |
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at other times it is actually 507,400,000 miles from the
Sun.
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reason is that the orbit is not a perfect circle, but an
ellipse.
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takes 4,331 days to orbit the Sun.
That’s 11.9 years.
The
mean temperature on Jupiter is -166 degrees
fahrenheit.
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