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| JUPITER |
| General Description |
Atmosphere and Planetary Composition | Great Red Spot | Belts and Zones | Jupiter's Rings | Jupiter's Moons | Statistics | Activities, Web Links |
| Statistics on Jupiter |  |
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| Distance from Sun | 5.203 AU 480,000,000 miles 778,330,000 km |
| Diameter | 88,700 miles 142,800 km |
| Mass | 1.9 x 1027 kg About 318 times the mass of the Earth |
| Number of Moons | 16 |
| 1 Jovian Day (Period of Rotation) |
9.8 Earth hours 0.40 Earth days |
| 1 Jovian Year (Period of Revolution Around the Sun) |
11.86 Earth years |
| Escape Velocity | 59,500 m/sec |
| Mean Surface Temperature |
-244 °F |
| Albedo (reflectivity) |
0.44 |
| Density | 1,314 kg per m3 |
| Oblique Axis (Tilt of the Axis) |
3.08° |
| Orbital Inclination | 1.3° |
| Orbital Eccentricity (Deviation from circular) |
0.048 |
| Perihelion (Closest to sun) |
740,900,000 km |
| Aphelion (Farthest from sun) |
815,700,000 km |
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