Jupiter

By: BrittanyJohnson Period 5

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Works Cited

• http://www.worldbookonline.com pictures

• http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/overview.html picture

• World book enyclopedia 2000, vol .10.

The End!