how did jupiter get its name?
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Ancient indo aryan god of sky who was worshipped most by the contemporary clans of people was named Dou Pitr or Dou the father. this name is distorted in different later civilisations and in India it actually vanished and Indra took the king of gods throne.\nIn Greece the same god was known as Zeus (pitr was removed, d substituted by z), son of Kronos or Cronus the Titan God and in Rome he came to be known as Jupiter. Both of them assumed the role of king or the supreme god.\nAs the 5th planet of the Solar System is the largest planet it was given the name Jupiter
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Many of the obvious celestial bodies have names which are carried over from tradition and history.  Examples include Terra (the Earth), Luna (the moon), Sol (the sun), Neptune, Venus, Mars, etc.  You'll note many of these carry the names of Greek gods.  However, today the International Astronomical Union uses a variety of naming conventions to assign proper names to the objects in our universe.  When a new object is observed, the Union uses its rules to name it so that scientists around the world can use a 'common language' when discussing it.  Examples of star names include Polaris (the North Star, located at the Celestial North Pole), Proxima Centauri (the closest known star) and Wolf 359, a real star system that was chosen as the site for a legendary battle with the Borg in the 'Star Trek' universe.  You might read the link in the 'sources' section for more information.\nPS: Websites that let you 'name a star' are purely cosmetic and the assigned names are in no way recognized by the Union or printed in academic star charts.  You would be better off using a desktop publishing program and designing a nice 'plaque' yourself if you wanted to make a gag gift.
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why don't u ask this question to our planet?it must give u the right answer,i asked it and it said its name was earth but u should ask it once more,in case it has changed its name from earth to something else..................like sun.
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Jupiter has a greater influence on Saturn because of the inverse square law relating to the strength of gravity (move twice as far away and the gravitational strength drops by a factor of 4).\n\nAlso, the influence of Saturn is far stronger because it is far larger than Mercury.  Saturn is about 95 times as mmassive as Earth comapred to Mercury which is about 1/5 the mass of Earth
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any one of those answers, but heres another, "Terrestrial life forms".  sence earth was called tarre by the ancients.  any life on any other world like IO, mooon of jupiter, would be called IOnians
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its a symbol for the planet jupiter...which symbolizes health
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For more info that you could possibly want to know:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(planet)
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How did the world get its name? It just happens.
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The name George has its origin in ancient Greek Geōrgios (Γεώργιος), a derivation of the noun geōrgos (γεωργός) "husbandman, farmer", a compound of gē (γῆ) "earth" and ergon (ἔργον) "work".\n\nThe name was rare in Antiquity, but became extremely popular in Christianity thanks to Saint George. It remains a popular name and has many variants in the different languages.
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GREAT QUESTION!!!!\n\nThe Kuiper Belt is the "leftovers" from when the Solar System was formed. It exists out past the orbit of Neptune.\n When our Solar System was forming out of an interstellar cloud, most of the matter was gravitationally pulled to the center. This caused the center to heat up until fusion began and our Sun was born. What was left behind began spinning around the new Sun and eventually became the nine planets, asteroids, and moons that make up our stellar home. \n There is an Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter that is made up of mainly rocky objects, but this is not the Kuiper Belt. As the Sun became hotter and hotter, it actually "melted * " all of the ice in the inner Solar system and pushed it out to the outer solar system along with most of the excess gas and dust left over from the Sun's creation. What was left in the inner Solar System was the rocky-- or terrestrial(Earth-like)-- planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth-Moon, Mars and the Asteriod Belt. \nThe ices, and gas that was pushed out farther became the four gas giants-- or Jovian(Jupiter-like)-- planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and all of the icey Moons that orbit them. \nIf the theory is correct, that why Jupiter has most of the excess mass left over from the Sun's creation at that part of the Solar System. It was far enough- and cold enough away from the Sun for the ice to become solid enough again. The cooler gas, collapsed down to become mostly Jupiter at that distance from the Sun. (That's why it was such a big surprise to discover Jupiter + sized planets around other stars at distances very close to their sun.) The rest of this gas became Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. \nFarther out than Neptune, the only things left were unmodified (not melted) ices. \nTHAT'S THE KUIPER BELT!\n It's believed to be another "asteroid belt" of sorts, but it is made up of mainly "dirty ice" which is mainly different kinds of ice and water ice with rocks and dust--think of it as dirt-- thrown in.(Astronomers can't just call something as simple as dirt, dirt, so they call it dust. Dust includes stuff like dirt, rocks, and anything else you might find in an interstellar cloud.) \n That is what Pluto and it's Moons are made of, as well as the recently discovered objects that are a little smaller than Pluto, and the one they found that is larger.\n That's why people are now questioning whether Pluto should be called a planet, because there are probably millions of these "Trans-Neptune objcts" out there waiting to be discovered. These little snowballs are of interest because they are basically undisturbed relics from before the Sun existed and can tell us quite a bit about the early Solar System, the Earth, and us!\n These ices should be different for the icy moons of Jupiter, Saturn, etc. because they weren't melted and pushed out away from the Sun. They were always far away beyond the orbit of Neptune and left undisturbed. \nStick around for the next 9 1/2 years as our Pluto spacecraft flys out there and notice all of the other discoveries of new Kuiper Belt Objects in the years before it arrives!!!\n ------------------------------------------------\n* Ice can't "melt" in the vacuum of space, so it goes straight from a solid to a gas. (We call solid water, for example, ice, and gaseous water, water vapor.)
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because the name[ harry potter ]was taken
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Uranus was named after a figure in mythology as were the other planets.\nHerschel who discovered the planet in 1781, wanted to name it after King George, but he was of course forced to comply with protocol and choose an appropriate name from Mythology.\nUranus was the son of Gaia the earth goddess, and was the god of the sky.
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Earth is (beside Sedna) the only planet in the solar system, whose name is not derived from the Greek or Roman mythology, the origin of the now used form of naming comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Erda (Erdaz), which means ground, soil, and Earth, the word changed to Eorthe or Erthe in Old English and to Erde in German.
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Jupiter has 63 known satellites.
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MERCURY \n\nNamed by early Romans after the messenger of their gods.\nRotation: 59days\nRevolution: 88days\nAtmosphere: Helium, oxygen, hydrogen\nTemperature: -193°C to 342°C\nDiameter: 4,878 KM\nDistance from the Sun (avg): 57.9 mil km\nNumber of Moons: 0 \n \n \n\n  \n \nVENUS \n\nNamed after the Roman goddess of beauty and love.\nRotation: 17hr, 50min\nRevolution: 165yrs\nAtmosphere: Nitrogen, carbon dioxide, argon, water vapor, sulfur dioxide.\nTemperature: 455°C\nDiameter: 12,100 KM\nDistance from the Sun (avg): 108.2 mil km\nNumber of Moons: 0 \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \nEARTH \n\nOur home planet, The third planet from the sun.\nRotation: 23hr, 56min, 4.09053 seconds.\nRevolution: 365.256days\nAtmosphere: 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, helium, neon.\nTemperature: -89°C to 58°C\nDiameter: 13,000 km\nDistance from the Sun (avg): 149.6 mil km\nNumber of Moons: 1 \n \n \n\n\n\n  \n \nMARS \n\nThe name derives from the Roman god of war.\nRotation: 24.66hr\nRevolution: 687yrs\nAtmosphere: Predominantly carbon dioxide, nitrogen, water vapor, some oxygen, traces of carbon monoxide, neon, and others.\nTemperature: -124°C to -31°C\nDiameter: 6,790 km\nDistance from the Sun (avg): 227.9 mil km\nNumber of Moons: 2 \n \n \n\n \n \n \nJUPITER \n\nThe romans named this planet after the king of their gods.\nRotation: 9hr, 55min\nRevolution: 11.86yrs\nAtmosphere: 90% Hydrogen, 10% helium, trace amounts of methane, ammonia, water.\nTemperature: -149°C\nDiameter: 147,700 km\nDistance from the Sun (avg): 778.3 mil km\nNumber of Moons: 16 and 23 smaller satellites \n \n \n\n\n\n  \n \nSATURN \n\nThe romans named this planet after their god of agriculture.\nRotation: 10hr, 39min\nAtmosphere: 91% hydrogen, 6% helium, methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, water and more.\nTemperature: -176°C\nDiameter: 120,563 km\nDistance from the Sun (avg): 1,429 mil km\nNumber of Moons: 20 \n \n \n\n \n \n \nURANUS \n\nNamed after the roman and greek god of sky.\nRotation: 17hr\nRevolution: 84yrs\nAtmosphere: Methane ice, hydrogen, helium.\nTemperature: -216°C\nDiameter: 51,118 km\nDistance from the Sun (avg): 2,875 mil km\nNumber of Moons: 20 \n \n \n\n\n\n  \n \nNEPTUNE \n\nThe romans named this planet after their god of the sea.\nRotation: 17hr, 50min\nRevolution: 165yrs\nAtmosphere: Hydrogen, Helium, Methane, Ethane.\nTemperature: -230°C\nDiameter: 48,591.8 km\nDistance from the Sun (avg): 4,504 mil km\nNumber of Moons: 8 \n \n \n\n \n \n \nPLUTO \n\nNamed after the greek god of the underworld.\nRotation: 6days, 9hrs, 18mins\nRevolution: 248yrs\nAtmosphere: Nitrogen, methane, carbon monoxide.\nTemperature: -225°C\nDiameter: 2,345 km\nDistance from the Sun (avg): 5,900 mil km\nNumber of Moons: 1
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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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Through the study of other stars 'wobble' within our own galaxy, we have detected planets larger than Jupiter, we believe.  Though, this is through a calculation with the doppler effect.  So to play it safe, as far as we know now it is Jupiter.  But to say that this will always be true would be bold and naive.