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=JUPITER=

What is Jupiters period of revolution ?
Its revolution period takes 12 years.

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What is Jupiters rotation period ?
Jupiter's period of rotation takes 9.8 hours.

What is the diameter of Jupiter in kilometres ?
Jupiter is 142,800 km = =

What is the Diameter of the Sun ?
The Sun's diameter is 1.4 million kilometers.

What is Jupiters atmosphere ?
It is dominated by colorful bands and turbulent swirls.

How many moons does Jupiter have ?
Jupiter has 63 moons.

How many rings does Jupiter have ?
Jupiter has 1, very thin ring around it.

Interesting facts about Jupiter:

 * 1) A scientific record says that Jupiter is as many as 778,330,000 km away from the Sun.
 * 2) Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.
 * 3) The planet is the fourth brightest object to be seen in the sky, after Sun, Venus and Mars.
 * 4) Jupiter takes nearly 12 earth years to revolve around the sun.
 * 5) The Giant Red Spot of Jupiter is about 2 Earth diameters wide.
 * 6) Ganymede is the largest Galilean satellite of Jupiter.
 * 7) Though Jupiter is the largest planet, it rotates extremely fast on its orbit, taking only 9 hours 55 minutes to complete one rotation.
 * 8) Jupiter has three thin rings around its equator, which are primarily made of smoke-sized particles and dust.
 * 9) Jupiter has the strongest pull of gravity amongst all the planets of the Solar System
 * 10) Jupiter's mass is 318 times larger than that of the Earth

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