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Facts about Jupiter<br />

• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun at a distance of about 484<br />

million miles or 5.2 AU.<br />

• The diameter of Jupiter is 88,730 miles.<br />

• Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system, 317 times<br />

the mass of Earth.<br />

• It takes Jupiter 11.9 Earth years to orbit the sun.<br />

• Jupiter rotates on it’s axis once every 9.8 Earth hours.<br />

• The temperature of Jupiter is -234 Farenheit.<br />

• Jupiter has a faint ring system, discovered in 1979 by the Voyager<br />

1 mission.

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