20 August 2009

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System
including the four large moons called the Galilean moons that were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede, the largest of these moons, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury.
Jupiter has been explored on several occasions by robotic spacecraft
It is a gas giant with mass slightly less than one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all of the other planets in our Solar System combined.
The Romans named the planet after the Roman god Jupiter.
Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium
This is how far Jupiter is from the sun 778,300,600. It takes 1186 years to get there.

Donovan, Yaseen.

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