Jupiter is 5.2 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. Find Jupiter's orbital period in Earth years?
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Use Kepler's law, which states that the orbital period squared is proportional to the cube of the orbital radius.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_law
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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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If earth's gravity is 1, Jupiter's gravitational pull is 2.64 times that of earth, So the fall would be much faster. The gravitational pull on Jupiter is over 2 and a half times stronger than Earth's. Imagine a roller coaster falling twice as fast!\n  \nThe gravitational pull of Mercury is .38 times that of earth. \nOn Mercury the gravity is so small that the fall would have to be about three times as long to get the same speed as on Earth.
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Jupiter has a diameter equal to 11.2 times the diameter of Earth.  In terms of volume, the ratio is 11.2^3 = 1405.
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You have to find the Least Common Multiple.\nFirst we know that it's going to be 84 or more years because Uranus takes 84 years to complete one orbit.\n So we know that the other planets' time length to make one orbit has to go into 84. \nFirst I did Earth: 84/1 = 84. \nNow I need to do Jupiter: 84/12 = 7. \nNext I do Saturn: 84/30 = 2 remainder 24. \nSo now I need to find a common multiple of 30 and 84. \n84 x 2 = 168 (no). 84 x 3 = 252 (no). 84 x 4 = 336 (no). 84 x 5 = 420 (yes).\n\n  14 \n  30)420 \n  -30 \n  --- \n  120 \n  -120 \n  --- \n  0 \n\nSo 420 is the number that goes into all the time lengths for the planets. Therefore we find out out that they will align once in 420 years.\nIf you knew the last time they were all in a line. You add that year + 420 and you get the next year when they will alll be in a line.
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The Solar System is believed to be around 4.5 billion years old. Hence, ignoring any changes in the length of the year, the Earth has orbited the sun 4.5 billion times.
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5.98 sextillion metric tons\n\nEarth's Weight (Mass): 5.972 sextillion (1,000 trillion) metric tons. That's 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons! Actually, scientists prefer to refer to this measurement as the Earth's mass instead of weight since weight is the result of Earth's gravitational pull on another object. And the Earth cannot pull on itself! As the Earth orbits the Sun, it is weightless. If the Earth were placed on the Sun, it would weigh more than if it were placed on Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system but much smaller than the sun. Yet, Earth (or any other object for that matter) would have the same mass regardless of where it is located.\n\nAge: About 4.5 Billion Years Old\n\nDistance from the Sun (average): About 93.1 million miles (also one Astronomical Unit or AU). It is the third planet from the Sun.\n\nFarthest Distance from the Sun: 94.5 million miles.\n\nClosest Distance to the Sun: 91.4 million miles. \n\nSpeed through Space (around the sun): 18.4 miles per second or about 67,000 miles per hour.\n\nSolar Orbit: It takes Earth 365.2422 days to orbit the sun. This is the basis for the year. \n\nRotational Speed: About 1,070 miles per hour at the equator.\n\nRotational Time: It takes the Earth 23 hours, 56 minutes and four (4) seconds to make one complete 360° rotation.\n\nRotational Tilt: 23.5° on its axis, a straight line through the planet from the North Pole to the South Pole. The tilt is in relation to Earth's near circular orbit around the sun.\n\nEarth's Size, Distances & Surface Features\n\nEquatorial Diameter: 7,928 miles\n\nPolar Diameter: 7,901 miles\n\nCircumference: 24,907 miles\n\nSurface Area: 197 million square miles\n\nHighest Point: 29,028 feet above sea level, Mount Everest, formed 60 million years ago, located on the border of Tibet and Nepal in the Central Himalayas in southeast Asia.\n\nLowest Point (on Land): 1,320 feet below sea level, Dead Sea, located on the border between Israel and the West Bank to the west and Jordan to the east. It is so salty -- the saltiest on Earth -- that it is unable to support any type of life.\n\nDeepest Point on Earth: 35,802 feet, Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. The water pressure there is over eight tons per square inch.\n\nEarth's Vital Systems & Elements\n\nSurface Data: 70% covered by water, with the remaining 30% composed of the seven continental land masses.\n\nWater Composition: 97% salt water, 3% fresh water (only .3% of all water is usable by humans).\nTotal Water Supply: About 326 million cubic miles. \n\n~ Oceans: 317 million cubic miles\n\n~ Ice Caps, glaciers: Seven (7) million cubic miles\n\n~ Ground water: Two (2) million cubic miles.\n\n~ Fresh Water Lakes: 30,000 cubic miles\n\n~ Inland Seas: 25,000 cubic miles\n\n~ Soil Moisture: 16,000 cubic miles\n\n~ Atmosphere: 3,100 cubic miles\n\n~ Rivers: 300 cubic miles (Almost all of humans' drinking water comes from rivers.)\n\nAir Composition: 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% other content (including greenhouse gases). The element Argon makes up about 93% of the other content, with carbon dioxide - the primary greenhouse gas, accounting for a little over 3%. Argon is an odorless and inert (inactive) gas that is commonly used in incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs to protect the filament. \nGreenhouse Effect: Vital to maintaining Earth's climate and life-sustaining warmth. The Sun's heat is trapped within Earth's atmosphere by the greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide, which enters the atmosphere through the planet's natural carbon cycling and increasingly from human-caused pollution. The increase of carbon dioxide gases in the atmosphere is believed to have caused the Earth's average temperature to rise from 60°F to 61°F in the last few decades.\nEarth's Chemical Composition: \n~ Oxygen: 46.6 %\n\n~ Silicon: 27.7%\n\n~ Aluminum: 8.1%\n\n~ Iron: 5%\n\n~ Calcium: 3.6%\n\n~ Sodium: 2.8%\n\n~ Potassium: 2.6%\n\n~ Magne
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Venus' sidereal year is about .6152 Earth years.  That's about 224.548 earth days.
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Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. the asteroid belt is located between the 5th planet (Mars) and the planet Jupiter
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4-Jupiter\nJupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and is a gas giant made up mostly of hydrogen.\n\nComparing Earth and Jupiter\n\nJupiter's diameter is over ten times greater than the Earth's \n\nIt has over 300 times the mass \n\nIf you weigh 180 pounds on Earth, you would weigh 426 pounds at Jupiter's cloud tops \n\nJupiter is five times further from the Sun than the Earth \n\nJupiter is so large that its famous Great Red Spot (actually a giant, hurricane-like storm that's at least 400 years old) would easily swallow the Earth. Jupiter spins so fast on its axis that it bulges noticeably at its equator (a day on Jupiter is about ten hours long).
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Jupiter is further from the sun, and has a larger orbital path.  That is why it takes longer (it has to travel further to go around)
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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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If you write the number sequence 0,3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, and add 4 to each number (4, 7, 10, etc) then divide by ten, you get the distance of each planet from the Sun, measured in astronomical units (1 a.u.=93 million miles=150 million kilometers).  This works out as Mercury 0.4, Venus 0.7, Earth 1.0, Mars 1.6, --- 2.8, Jupiter 5.2, and Saturn 10.0  This works out pretty accurately, but there was nothing at 2.8. Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781 at 19.6, right where another planet was supposed to go according to the Titius rule.   When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was at 2.72, filling the gap.  Neptune, however is not near 38.8, but at 30.  Astronomers now believe the "law" is either a coincidence, or the result of billions of years of gravitational interactions.
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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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Acording to Kepler's first law of planetary motion, all objects obit other objects in eliptical paths.  This means that the distance from the earth to the sun is not constant.  The average distance is 149600 km or 92 957.1304 miles.  This means that it would take 1239.42 hours or 51 Days 15 hours.
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The surface speed of the Earth's rotation at the equator is 465.11 m/s, while the average orbital speed is 29783 m/s, a good 6 times faster.  The orbital circumference would be 2AU*pi, where AU is the astronomical unit, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, or 149597870691 m.  So the circumference is 2*149597870691*pi = 939951143084 m, or 584058562 miles, which is very close to your answer; you probably just rounded differently or used a different value for AU.
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Pluto is the fartherest planet, there is some discussion about it being a planet or not but for this answer we'll let it be one, from the sun during most of it's orbit. It's 5,913,520,000Km from the Sun.\nThe Main asteriod belt lies between Mars and Jupiter, roughly 374,172,480Km from the sun, the planets run Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune & Pluto.\nThe Kuiper Belt, made up of comets instead of asteriods, lies outside of the orbit of Pluto and some think Pluto is just a comet from this belt. Then going way on out past the Kuiper Belt you run into the Oort Cloud roughly 22,450,348,800,000Km from the Sun and made up of trillions of cometary bodies.