Jupiter is about 480
million miles from the sun. The diameter of Jupiter is
88,846 miles (142,984 kilometers). It is so far away in
space it takes about 12 years to go around the sun one
time! The size of Jupiter is
more than one-and-one half times as big as all the other
planets put together. If the planet Jupiter were hollow,
more than 1,300 planet Earths could fit inside. No human being has ever
seen the surface of Jupiter. Jupiter spins around the
sun faster that any other planet. The temperature on
Jupiter is very cold, 250 degrees (f) below zero to be
exact, but at the center it is very hot. It is more that
50,000 degrees (f). If you were standing on
the surface of Jupiter, you would weigh more than
two-and-one half times more than what you would weigh on the
surface of earth. Jupiter is the second
brightest star. It has three rings around it's equator. The
rings consist of fine dust particles. The main ring is 70
miles thick and 4,000 miles wide.
