10 Amazing facts about Jupiter
Top 10 Amazing Facts about Planet Jupiter.
1. Jupiter is the Fifth Largest Planet in The Solar System with the Mass of two and a half times than all the other planets in the solar system combined.
2. Jupiter is Massive Enough than all other plantes in the Solar System, more than 1300 earth can fit inside jupiter.
3. If Jupiter had become 80 times more massive than its current Mass, nuclear fusion would have occurred in its core. Had that happened, it would have become a star instead of a planet.
4. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is an enormous storm that has been raging for over 300 years. This storm is so wide that three Earth’s would fit inside of it.
5. Jupiter is the only planet that has a center of mass with the Sun that lies outside the volume of the Sun, though by only 7% of the Sun’s radius.
6. Jupiter has at least 67 moons in satellite around the planet. This includes the four large moons called the Galilean moons that were first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610.
These moons are separated into three groups:
Inner moons. These orbit the closest to Jupiter and are sometimes called the Amalthea group.
Galilean moons. These are largest of Jupiter’s moons and were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
Outer moons. These moons are much smaller and further away from Jupiter.
7. Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets.
It turns on its axis once every 9 hours and 55 minutes. The rapid rotation flattens the planet slightly, giving it an oblate shape.
8. Jupiter revolves around the Sun once every 11.86 Earth years, or once every 4,330.6 Earth days. Jupiter travels at an average speed of 29,236 miles per hour or 47,051 kilometers per hour in its orbit around the Sun.
9. Jupiter has massive gravitational pull , it's gravity is 2.4 times that of earth - so if you weighed 100 kg (220 lbs) on earth, you would weigh 240 kg (529 lbs) on jupiter.
10. Jupiter May Have Been the Reason Why Life on Earth Exists Today due to extreme gravitational pull jupiter , Long-period comets is thought to sling out of the solar system before they can get close to Earth.