what are the jovian planets?
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Their are two types of planets:\n\n    * Terrestrial planets\n          o low mass (£ 1 MÅ )\n          o high density (rocky, metallic)\n          o slow rotators (P ³ 24 hours)\n          o few satellites\n          o close to Sun (a £ 1.6 AU)\n          o Thin atmospheres\n          o Weak or no mag field\n                   \n            &\n\n     * Jovian planets\n          o high mass (³ 15 MÅ )\n          o low density (gaseous, but some gas is solid)\n          o rapid rotators (P £ 18 hours)\n          o many satellites\n          o far from Sun (a ³ 5 AU)\n          o Thick atmospheres\n          o Strong magnetic field\n\n\n\n\nThe Jovian Planets\n\n    * Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have all been visited by the Voyager space probes.\n          o Galileo is now studying Jupiter\n          o Cassini is on its way to Saturn\n    * Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all massive bodies\n          o formed in outer part of pre-solar nebula where ices condense\n          o growth by accretion and coalescence\n          o Massive enough that gravity probably played an important role as well\n    * Jovian planets are gaseous/fluid bodies\n          o supported by balance between pressure and gravity: Hydrostatic equilibrium\n\n\nIf you want to see pictures and a more indepth explanation goto this url below.\n\n\nI hope this helps...\n\nDon
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Jupiter has 63 known satellites.  Scott Shepard maintains one of the better acountings of planetary moons.
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Our own solar system has 10 planets that we know of:\nMercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and the newly discovered 2003 UB313.  That last one is still being contended, and why that debate gets so heated is beyond me.\n\nThere are actually 155 known extrasolar planets, and that number is only going to rapidly increase.  You can find a list on the California & Carnegie Planet Search site below:
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Most likely Venus, as those above me have stated, but Jupiter is also a possibility.  \n\nStarmaps are readily available on the internet, and that would tell you for sure. \n\nHowever, a more fun way to find out would be to take a telescope outside and look at the planet.  Even a very low-end model telescope will have the resolution to see the moons of Jupiter.  Watch it for a week, if you don't see any moons or the giant red spot, it's Venus.
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"Jove" is another name for Jupiter. In fact, it's the form that one uses to make the adjective. The satellites around Jupiter are called "Jovian moons."
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All planets: http://www.nineplanets.org/\nMars: http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/\n\nAlso, start at Yahoo Search and type in:\npictures of jupiter\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pictures+of+jupiter&rs=3&fr2=rs-top&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-\n\nMercury: pictures of mercury http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pictures+of+mercury&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-&x=wrt\nVenus: pictures of venus http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pictures+of+venus&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-&x=wrt\n... \nYou get the ... uh ... picture.
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Don't forget the tenth planet "Xena"\n\nSome info on the planets:\n\nhttp://beaker.atspace.org/spaceglossplanets.htm
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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Its diameter is 88,846 miles (142,984 kilometers), more than 11 times that of Earth, and about one-tenth that of the sun. It would take more than 1,000 Earths to fill up the volume of the giant planet. When viewed from Earth, Jupiter appears brighter than most stars. It is usually the second brightest planet -- after Venus.\n\nJupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. Its mean (average) distance from the sun is about 483,780,000 miles (778,570,000 kilometers), more than five times Earth's distance. Ancient astronomers named Jupiter after the king of the Roman gods.\n\nAstronomers have studied Jupiter with telescopes based on Earth and aboard artificial satellites in orbit around Earth. In addition, the United States has sent six space probes (crewless exploratory craft) to Jupiter.\n\nAstronomers witnessed a spectacular event in July 1994, when 21 fragments of a comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere. The impacts caused tremendous explosions, some scattering debris over areas larger than the diameter of Earth.\n\nPhysical features of Jupiter\n\nJupiter is a giant ball of gas and liquid with little, if any, solid surface. Instead, the planet's surface is composed of dense red, brown, yellow, and white clouds. The clouds are arranged in light-colored areas called zones and darker regions called belts that circle the planet parallel to the equator.\n\nOrbit and rotation\n\nJupiter travels around the sun in a slightly elliptical (oval-shaped) orbit. The planet completes one orbit in 4,333 Earth days, or almost 12 Earth years.\n\nAs Jupiter orbits the sun, the planet rotates on its axis, an imaginary line through its center. The axis is tilted about 3¡. Scientists measure tilt relative to a line at a right angle to the orbital plane, an imaginary surface touching all points of the orbit.\n\nJupiter rotates faster than any other planet. It takes 9 hours 56 minutes to spin around once on its axis, compared with 24 hours for Earth. Scientists cannot measure the rotation of the interior of the giant planet directly, so they have calculated the speed from indirect measurements. They first calculated the speed using an average of the speeds of the visible clouds that move with interior currents, except for a more rapid zone near the equator.\n\nJupiter sends out radio waves strong enough to be picked up by radio telescopes on Earth. Scientists now measure these waves to calculate Jupiter's rotational speed. The strength of the waves varies under the influence of Jupiter's magnetic field in a pattern that repeats every 9 hours 56 minutes. Because the magnetic field originates in Jupiter's core, this variation shows how fast the plant's interior spins.\n\nJupiter's rapid rotation makes it bulge at the equator and flatten at the poles. The planet's diameter is about 7 percent larger at the equator than at the poles.\n\nMass and density\n\nJupiter is heavier than any other planet. Its mass (quantity of matter) is 318 times larger than that of Earth. Although Jupiter has a large mass, it has a relatively low density. Its density averages 1.33 grams per cubic centimeter, slightly more than the density of water. The density of Jupiter is about 1/4 that of Earth. Because of Jupiter's low density, astronomers believe that the planet consists primarily of hydrogen and helium, the lightest elements. Earth, on the other hand, is made up chiefly of metals and rock. Jupiter's mix of chemical elements resembles that of the sun, rather than that of Earth.\n\nJupiter may have a core made up of heavy elements. The core may be of about the same chemical composition as Earth, but 20 or 30 times more massive.\n\nThe force of gravity at the surface of Jupiter is up to 2.4 times stronger than on Earth. Thus, an object that weighs 100 pounds on Earth would weigh as much as 240 pounds on Jupiter.\n\nThe atmosphere of Jupiter is composed of abou
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The order of planets? \n\nMercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
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Well, there's nine so far - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.  However, scientists have discovered other planets that orbit our Sun that are even further out than Pluto!  So there's a possibility that we may update our information involving the solar system sometime in the future....
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Unknown, of course. But the largest planet in our SOLAR SYSTEM is Jupiter.
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Jovian comes from the Roman God Jove (also known as Father Jove, in latin: <i>jovis pater</i> = Jupiter)\n\nAs previously mentioned, the term refers to the gas giant planets.\n\nJupiter is one of the 3 planets observable from earth with the naked eye (Venus and Mars being the others), and so has been known for millenia. When more was learned about the composition and structure of Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers noticed they shared many similarities, and used the term Jovian to describe planets like Jupiter. For a time this included Uranus and Neptune, also 'gas giants'. However, modern astronomers have begun referring to these two as Uranian planets, due to the predominance of water, methane, and ammonia in their composition, as opposed to the Jovians, which are mostly made up of hydrogen and helium.\n\nIt can also be used to refer to Jupiter's many moons, or its rings.
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mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune pluto
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From the planets you just mentioned.
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The LATEST (April, 2006) planets discovered in our GALAXY -\n(1)HD2246936 b\n(2)HD33283 b\n(3)HD86081 b\n\nSedna is the latest major object to be discovered in our solar system. It has NOT been officially designated as a planet yet, nor has its name been officially designated.
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The newest planet is Sedna. It could be the 10th planet on our solar system.
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There are 6 planets that even the ancients knew about.  From the sun outward, they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.  (of  course, the ancients did not know that Earth was quite a bit like those little points of light that moved through the heavens).  William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781. Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle. And Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto on February 18th, 1930.\n\nA few other discoveries may turn out to be planets.  In 2003 Mike Brown and two other astronomers discovered an object larger than Pluto, temporarily named 2003 UB313.  The International Astronomical Union will make a determination whether UB313 will be called a planet, and they'll also give it a proper name from mythology.  \n\nAnd astronomers have found other planet-sized bodies circling distant stars. As of May 18th, 193 of these "extra-solar" (meaning away from our sun) planets have been discovered.  See the exoplanet link below for more info.\n\nSo, to sum things up, from the sun outward, your list is:\n\nMercury\nVenus\nEarth\nMars\nJupiter\nSaturn\nUranus\nNeptune\nPluto\nUB 313 (maybe)\n\nand 193 planets somewhere else in our Milky Way galaxy.