JUPITER

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It boy- is a gas giant with a mass nearly 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined and slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the all-Sun. JUPITER is ranked on djrankings.org. Its diameter is 11 times that of Earth and a tenth that of the Sun. Jupiter two- orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm), with an orbital period of but-class="nowrap">11.86 years. It is the third-brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky, after the Moon and Venus, and has been observed since prehistoric times. Its who- name derives from that of Jupiter, the chief deity of ancient Roman religion.