can you find jupiter?
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this week, if you look east at about 9:30pm local time, you will see Jupiter just above the horizon.  At about 1am, it will be high in the sky to the south.  just before sunrise, it will be just about to set in the west.\n\nsubtract two hours from each of these times for these positions for every month you add to right now.\n\noh, wait.  a picture.  you don't actually want to find it in the sky.  go to http://www.nineplanets.org and click on "Jupiter".
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My favourtie planet is Jupiter because it's the largest and yet made up of a lot of gas. I actually like it because of its moons. The 4 main moons are really cool. It's one moon, Io, is the most active object in our solar system. Also, because it's soo close to Jupiter, as it rotates around it fluctuates thus making it's shape change. The other cool moon, Europa is covered in a thin layer of ice and it is believed to have H2O water underneath that ice which would make it the only other place than earth in our Solar System to have H2O. Ganymede and Callisto are two really cool moons to look at.
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hi, \n\nas i understand it, jupiter (and all the other gas giants, saturn uranus and neptune) don't really have a clear phase-separated surface, in the sense that earth/mars/moon do.\n\nthe interior structure of the planet is not well known, but it is believed that the atmosphere simply gets denser and denser as you go lower and lower, like fog that gets thicker and thicker until it's essentially liquid.  similarly as you go deeper yet, a smooth boundary between the liquid and solid is encountered.  however this has not really been directly confirmed.\n\nthe galileo mission to jupiter released a small probe, which descended into jupiter for 150 kilometers, until it was crushed by the high pressure of the atmosphere.\n\nhere are some resources that might help you out:\nhttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/jupiterpage.html\nhttp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1989-084E\n\ncheers!
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Aside from a miracle, I have heard that the Star of David could have been a rare occurance where Jupiter and Saturn where located in the same position in the sky.  The appearance of the two would look like one unusually large bright star.
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Unknown, of course. But the largest planet in our SOLAR SYSTEM is Jupiter.
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Probably not. The Solar system is a system in balance. The Sun's gravity keeps the orbits of the planets stable. Gravitational attraction between the planets also effects their orbits, exerting the same force as the Moon exerts on the Earth's oceans. The gas giants, especially Jupiter can\ncreate "tides" that can tear a smaller planet to pieces, over time. There once was a "theory" that the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, consists of pieces of a planet called, I believe, Vulcan. If Mars WASN'T there, the\nearth would probably be located farther out from the Sun.\nVulcan might not have broken up, and would be orbiting a little closer to the Sun, but not as close as Mars. Bottom line: Earth, outside the "comfort zone" would probably be TOO COLD to sustain life.\n\nMoral of the story? Things are the way they are for a reason.
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Even though it is considered a planet Jupiter is almost a star.It doesen't put out light but it does put out heat.If it had been a little bigger it would have become a star.
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jupiter, i think it has 12
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Saturn is much closer to Jupiter. Jupiter averages 484 million miles from the sun. Saturn averages 886 million miles from the sun. Uranus averages 1783 miles from the sun. Simple math puts Jupiter closer to Saturn than Uranus. Jupiter is 402 million miles from Saturn. Uranus is 897 million miles from Saturn.
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Good question \nPluto is out there somwhere after neptune . May be it is removed from the planet status but not from the solar system , It is in the status of a dwarf planet and it isn't lost and It isn't fair but this isn't the first  planet to be removed from the planet status but ceres was once aplanet in the ancient times it was in the planetery status for 5 decades and was removed by the same scientist/astronaut who found it , he stated he was wrong on his prediction and declared it was an asteroids which was floating the space which looked to him as a planet . It was said be in the middle of mars and jupiter .
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Jupiter has 63 known satellites.  Scott Shepard maintains one of the better acountings of planetary moons.
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It would weigh more on Jupiter.
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Jupiter takes 11.86 years to orbit the Sun, also known as its "orbital period".  \n\nThis is entirely determined by the fact that it is, on average, 5.2 times further from the Sun than the Earth is.  If you wanted to derive the orbital period yourself, one uses Kepler Third Law.  Just take the number 5.2 and raise it to the (3/2) power, and you get 11.86 years.\n\nOne of the weird things about Jupiter is its rotation.   One "day" on Jupiter is 9 hours 50 minutes if you're at the equator, but 9 hours 55 minutes at the poles.  This is because the equator actually spins faster than the poles...a planet can do that when it's not a solid.
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Venus, or jupiter. Find a fixed star close to the planet in question. If it moves relative to that star the next day, then it is Venus. If it takes a few days to notice movement, then it is jupiter. The planets closer to the sun will move faster to relative objects in the sky, those farther out will move slower....KECK
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Due North.  There are a couple of ways to find it.  One is to face due north and look up a bit.  If you know your latitude, you can find the North Star by looking up that many degrees from the horizon.  Hence, if you're in SF like me, the North Star will be ~38 degrees above the horizon.\n\nThe easier way is to find the Big Dipper\nhttp://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/constellations/bigdipper.gif\nWhich is a prominent and easy constellation to find in the northern sky.  Then, close one eye, stretch out your arm, and spread your fingers so that the front two stars (across from the "handle") are each covered by one of your fingers.  Those front two stars point right at the North Star.  Trac out in a straight line from those two stars, going "up" (if you imagine the dipper being oriented in a way that it would hold water) for a distance that is five times the distance between those two front stars.  So if you swing your arm along, placing the lower finger where the top finger just was, and keeping the spacing of your fingers steady, it will direct you to a bright star.  That star is the North Star.
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No. Jupiter does not emit cosmic rays. It does have a very strong magnetic field that traps solar wind particles in a kind of super Van Allen radiation belt, and it does emit radio waves, but no cosmic rays.
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The total number of known moons of Jupiter now stands at 63, the most of any other planet in the Solar System.\n\nUntil 1975 there were 17 known moons, until Themisto was lost.\n\nIn 1999, researchers rediscovered Themisto and found a further 45 The most well known are the Galilean Moons, which are, in order of increasing distance from Jupiter:Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto