الأربعاء، 23 ديسمبر 2009

Jupiter


Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. and it’s the largest planet in the solar system . his mass is bigger more than 2.5 times the other eight planets combined . The Romans named the planet after the Roman god Jupiter ,and it's the third-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus .
Jupiter is thought to consist of a dense core with a mixture of elements, a surrounding layer of liquid metallic hydrogen with some helium, and an outer layer predominantly of molecular hydrogen.[27] Beyond this basic outline, there is still considerable uncertainty. The core is often described as rocky, but its detailed composition is unknown, as are the properties of materials at the temperatures and pressures of those depths (see below). In 1997, the existence of the core was suggested by gravitational measurements, indicating a mass of from 12 to 45 times the Earth's mass or roughly 3%–15% of the total mass of Jupiter. The presence of a core during at least part of Jupiter's history is suggested by models of planetary formation involving initial formation of a rocky or icy core that is massive enough to collect its bulk of hydrogen and helium from the protosolar nebula. Assuming it did exist, it may have shrunk as convection currents of hot liquid metallic hydrogen mixed with the molten core and carried its contents to higher levels in the planetary interior. A core may now be entirely absent, as gravitational measurements are not yet precise enough to rule that possibility out entirely
The jupiter mean radius is about 71,492 KM, and its 778.4 million KM away from the sun , and his gravity is 23.12. it has 63 moon,so it makes it the most planen has a moons in the solar system . his surface area is about 64 billion 〖KM〗^2 .