Jupiter

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Jupiter

• By BrittanyJohnson Period 5

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The Basics

• Is the 5th planet from the sun.
• 300 times more massive than earth
• Named after the roman chief god, Jove.
• Also called a gas giant.

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Distances and Such

• 778,000,000 km from the sun
• .41 earth days to rotate
• 142,800 km across in diameter
• 317.8 times the mass of earth.

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Satellites

• Jupiter has 17 moons, the same as Uranus.
• This is a picture of Io, known as the most
  colorful object in space.
• Io is covered with volcanoes and is one of the
  most active moons in the universe.

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What is it like?

• This is a picture of the Great red spot.
• It is actually a huge storm, in which 20 earths
  could fit.
• Jupiter is believed to have a small solid core,
  but is mostly made of hydrogen and helium gas.

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Crash!

• This is a picture of the scars received when
  shoemaker-levy9 crashed into Jupiter in 1994.
• Shoemaker was a smaller probe from Galileo.
• Was also visited by Voyager in 1977

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Works Cited

• http//www.worldbookonline.com pictures
• http//seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanet
  s/overview.html picture
• World book enyclopedia 2000, vol .10.

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The End!