Jupiter "The Bringer of Jollity"

Captured using the Stamford observatory's 22-inch telescope in photographic mode.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, by far the largest and more than twice as massive as the combined mass of all the other planets.
~ 318 times the size of Earth ~

Orbit: 778,330,000 km (5.20 AU) from Sun
D iameter: 142,984 km (equatorial)
M ass: 1.900e27 kg

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