WHAT DOES JUPITERS NAME MEAN The name Jupiter

WHAT DOES JUPITERS NAME MEAN? . . . The name Jupiter comes from the Roman god of Greek mythology, the leader of all gods , the roman equivalent of Zeus. The planet has been known since Babylon times when they thought of it as there god Zeus. The planet was also looked at through a telescope first by Galileo. Margaret Emilioni Hanley

JUPITER • I’m the fifth planet from the sun • 484 million miles is my distance from the sun

• One day on my planet is 9 hours, 52 minutes

• My size is 88, 849 miles across! • I am also the largest planet! In fact I am so big I can hold all the planets put together in side me!

• A 85 pound child would weigh 216 pounds on my planet

• It would take my planet 11. 9 earth years to orbit the sun! that’s a lot!

• The hotter it gets the thicker it becomes

• At the cloud tops, the Temperature of Jupiter is thought to be -145 °C • temperatures are thought to get as high as 36, 000°.

• I am a gas giant • I have a brownish , reddish whitish color

• Yes I have moons • I have 59 moons • Io, Europa, Ganymade, Callisto are my main moons • Io-volcanic, Europa-watery, icy, Ganymademagnetic field, Callisto-cratered, ancient

• I have 4 rings • My rings are Halo ring, main ring, Amalthea Gossame ring, and Thebe gossamer ring.

• No way you could live on my planet its 220° out here • I am also a gas giant you would fall right through