JUPITER

What is the position of JUPITER in the Solar System?

JUPITER is in the fifth position of the Solar System.

The distance of Jupiter to the sun is of 778,5 millions of km

What are the main characteristics?

 
Jupiter is a gaseous planet,it weight 1.899x1027kg.

 It is one thousandth part of the sun but is the biggest planet of the Solar System and

 the weightest planet of the Solar System.It weight

318 times the Earth and occupies 1,317 more than the  Earth.
The name Jupiter comes from the Roman God 

JUPITER (ZEUS).

Satellites

Jupiter has 67 satellites the  most inportant are the Galileanas moons.
The names are:

Calisto, Ganímedes, Europa and Io.

The nucleus

The nucleus of Jupiter is formed of ice and rocks.







Fun fact

Jupiter have 3 rings that are thin and dark, that are formed by particles of dust.The rings can not seen from the Earth.the Galilean Moons have 
that name because the person who discovered it 
was Galileo Galilei.

An incredible story


Jupiter and Saturn formed far away from the solar system, eventually they began to approach the solar system, they were approaching very fast and ... Jupiter was going to crash into the Earth! But Saturn was a little faster than Jupiter and saved to the earth.