Dawnie+Jupiter

__JUPITER!__

Jupiter is the largest of the 4 Gas Giants. Also the largest in the entire Solar System. (It contains more mass than all the other planets.) It is the 5th from the Sun, after Mars. Jupiter is 778 330 000 kilometres (483 340 000 miles) from the Sun on average.

Size is normally reffered to diameter and mass.
 * Diameter: 142 984 kilometres (88 846 miles)
 * Mass: 1,899,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg


 * It takes 11.9 Earth years for Jupiter to orbit the Sun **
 * Back to Solar System page **

Bonus Info:

In March 1993 astronomers Eugene Shoemaker, Carolyn Shoemaker, and David H. Levy discovered a comet near Jupiter. Since Jupiter's gravity is so strong, this comet called Shoemaker -Levy9 split into many tiny asteroids and hit into Jupiter, which left prominent scars.