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Jupiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times th...
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The planet Jupiter is shown in the adjacent Hubble Space Telescope true-color image (Ref). Jupiter is by far the largest of the planets. It is more than twice as massive as all other planets combined;
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csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/jupiter/jupiter.html
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Jupiter: The Largest Planet ... Jupiter is a large gas planet whose clouds change colors daily. This planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium gases. Jupiter gives off two times more heat than it gets from the Sun. It shines very brightly in the night sky for nine months of the year when it is closest to Earth.
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Jupiter is a large gas planet whose rapid rotation causes the planet to flatten at the poles and bulge at the equator. Jupiter emits twice as much heat as it absorbs from the Sun, which indicates it has its own internal heat source.
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Jupiter/Earth Comparison ... Dipole field strength: 4.28 gauss-Rj3 Dipole tilt to rotational axis: 9.6 degrees Longitude of tilt: 201.7 degrees Dipole offset (planet center to dipole center) distance: 0.131 Rj Latitude/Longitude of offset vector: -8.0 degrees/148.57 degrees...
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NSSDC Lunar & Planetary Science: Jupiter Page ... Missions to Jupiter ... Jupiter Fact Sheet...
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nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/jupiterpage.html
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Explore Jupiter and its moons, planet facts. ... Jupiter takes about 12 years to orbit the sun and rotates in about 10 hours. This short Jupiter "day" is amazing since the planet is roughly 11 Earth diameters wide.
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www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/jupiter-facts.html
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