Jupiter's Statistics
| Planetary Symbol: |
 |
Name in Roman/Greek Mythology: |
Jupiter/Zeus |
| Diameter: |
142,800 km
(88,736 miles) |
Rotation Period about Axis: |
9.8 hours |
| Mass: |
1,898 x10^24 kilograms (318 x Earth's) |
Revolution Period about the Sun: |
12 years |
| Density: |
1,326 kg/m^3 |
Tilt of Axis: |
3.1o |
| Minimum Distance from Sun: |
741 million km
(460 million miles) |
Surface Gravity: |
23.12 m/s^2 (2.64 x Earth's) |
| Maximum Distance from Sun: |
817 million km
(508 million miles) |
Distance across the Great Red Spot: |
40,000 km
(24,860 miles) |
| Orbital Semimajor Axis: |
5.20 AU (Earth=1 AU) |
Temperature at Cloud Tops: |
-150o C (-101o F) |
| Minimum Distance from Earth: |
588 million km
(365 million miles) |
Average Cloud Top Temperature (K): |
123K |
| Rings: |
1, very thin |
Satellites: |
known |
Jupiter Image Archive
Comparative Planetary Statistics -- in table form
Comparative Orbital Statistics -- in table form
Actual Distance to Earth
News from NSF: A Newly Discovered Solar System Contains Scaled-Down Versions of Saturn and Jupiter (2/14/08)
Podcasts from NSF: Systemic Search
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