Planet
The largest planet in the solar system, a gas giant with a Great Red Spot storm.
| Type | Planet |
|---|---|
| Distance from the Sun | 5.20 AU |
| Diameter | 139,820 km |
| Mass | 1.90 × 10²⁷ kg |
| Surface gravity | 24.8 m/s² |
| Temperature | -108°C |
| Moons | 115 |
| Rings | Yes |
| Orbital period | 4,331 days |
| Rotation period | 9.93 hours |
| Apparent magnitude | -2.2 |
| Redshift | 0 |
| Discovered | Prehistoric |
Planets are massive enough to pull themselves round and to have cleared their orbit of other debris — the second part is the line the solar system's dwarf planets fall short of.
At 139,820 km across, Jupiter is 11 times the diameter of Earth.
Its mass is 318 times the mass of Earth.
It keeps an average distance of 5.2 AU from the Sun, so sunlight takes 43 minutes to reach it.
A single orbit takes 12 years.
An average temperature of 165 K works out at -108 degrees Celsius, colder than the 15 degrees Earth averages.
115 moons are known to orbit it.
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