JUPITERPLANET FOR PRESIDENT

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My Name

I am named for the Roman god, Jupiter, the ruler of all the other gods.

Most of the other planets are named for Roman gods as well.

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I am the fifth and largest planet!

I am 84% Hydrogen and 14% Helium

I am made up of gas and liquid, but I may have a rocky core

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I am 778,330,000 km (5.20 AU) from the Sun

At my equator, I am 142,984 km wide.

My mass is 1.900e27 kg

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It takes 11.86 Earth years for me to orbit the sun

On me, a day is 9.9 hours.

I am visible to the human eye.

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I protect the internal solar system from comets and asteroids

I may have been a failed star

I do have rings, even though you can’t see them

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I have four major moons, known as the Galilean moons, because they we discovered by him(Galileo).

Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa are these moons

I have 57 other moons but these are the biggest

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I am home to the Great Red Spot, a storm that has been raging in the southern hemisphere for hundreds of years.

Three earths could fit inside the Great Red Spot!

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I pulled the comet, Levy Shoemaker 9 out of space

My gravity broke it into many different pieces

On of the bursts of fire cause by the crash shot 18,000 miles into space!

Pictures of me

Quiz time!

1.) I have moons

a. over 60

b. just 4

c. over 71

d. 9,999

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2.) What is the storm on my surface?

a. The great storm

b. the hurricane

c. The Great Red Spot

d. the red storm

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3. My day last how long?

About 10 hours

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4. I am named for what type of god?

a. Roman

b. Greek

c. Chinese

d. Galilean

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5. I am what percentage of the sun?

a. 1 thousandth

b. 1 millionth

c. The same size

d. 1 hundredth

Works Cited:

nineplanets.org The Cosmic Tour-Piers Bizony wikepedia.org nasa.gov www.solarviews.com/eng/jupiter.htm

solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Jupiter