JUPITER

JUPITER HAS MORE THAN 50 MOONS

SATURN HAS RINGS BUT JUPITER HAS RINGS TOO BUT THEY ARE MUCH SMALLER AND FAINTER

JUPITER IS THE FITH PLANET FROM THE SUN

JUPITER IS THE LARGEST PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM. FITTINGLY ,IT WAS NAMED AFTER THE KING OF THE GODS IN ROMAN MYTHOLOGY.IN A SIMILAR MANNER ,THE ANCIENT GREEK PANTHEON.

JUPITER HELPED REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY WE SAW THE UNIVERSE AND OURSELVES IN 1610 ,WHEN GALILEO DISCOVERED JUPITER'S FOUR LARGE MOONS,EUROPA,GANYMEDE AND CALLISTO,NOW KNOWN AS THE GALILEAN MOONS.THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT CELESTIAL BODY'S WERE SEEN CIRCLING AN OBJECT OTHER THAN EARTH,MAJOR SUPPORT OF THE COPERNICAN VIEW THAT EARTH WAS NOT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

Jupiter spins very quickly on its axis.  A day on Jupiter lasts only 9 hours and 55 minutes. 

Jupiter is so big that you could fit all the other planets in the solar system inside it.

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