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Average distance from the Sun: 483,880,000 mi.
Diameter of the planet: 88,736 mi.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.
The diameter of Jupiter's equator is 88,730 miles, over 11 times greater than Earth's.
Jupiter is only 1.3 times the density of water.
Its main atmospheric gas is hydrogen.
Jupiter has hardly any tilt in its axis at all, only 3.1 degrees.
The gravity on Jupiter is greater than on any planet: 234% the gravity on Earth.
Your average 150 pound person would weigh 351 pounds.
During its orbit around the sun, Jupiter's distance from it varies from 460.3 million miles to 507.2 million miles.
One Jupiter day is 9 hours and 55 minutes.
One Jupiter year is 11.86 years.
Jupiter's average temperature is -123 degrees Celcius.
Jupiter has one ring and 16 known moons.
They are called Adrastea, Amalthea, Ananke, Callisto, Carme, Elara, Europa, Ganymede, Himalia, Io, Leda, Lysithea, Metis, Pasiphae, Sinope, and Thebe.
Unlike Saturn's intricate and complex ring patterns, Jupiter has a single ring that is almost uniform in its structure.
It extends to an outer edge of about 80,161 miles from the center of the planet and inward to about 18,642 miles.
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