What (who) is Jupiter - definition

FIFTH PLANET FROM THE SUN AND LARGEST PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Planet Jupiter; Jupiter's; Jupiter (planet); Jupiter (astronomy); Wood Star; Sol V; Zenography; Physical characteristics of Jupiter; Jupiter (Planet); Jovian orbit; The weight of Jupiter; Weight of Jupiter; Jupiter weight; The mass of Jupiter; Jupiter's radio emissions; Juptian; Sol 5; Sol-5; Jupitor; Jovian life; Structure of Jupiter; History of Jupiter; Orbit of Jupiter; The planet Jupiter; Jupitar; Climate of Jupiter; Jupiter planet; Zenocentric orbit

jupiter

To kill an IRC robot or user and then take its place by adopting its nick so that it cannot reconnect. Named after a particular IRC user who did this to NickServ, the robot in charge of preventing people from inadvertently using a nick claimed by another user. [Jargon File] (1994-11-23)

Jupiter

·noun The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.

II. Jupiter ·noun One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity.

Jupiter

¦ noun the largest planet in the solar system, fifth in order from the sun and one of the brightest objects in the night sky.

Wikipedia

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, and slightly less than one one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the third brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky after the Moon and Venus, and it has been observed since prehistoric times. It was named after Jupiter, the chief deity of ancient Roman religion.

Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen, followed by helium, which constitutes a quarter of its mass and a tenth of its volume. The ongoing contraction of Jupiter's interior generates more heat than the planet receives from the Sun. Because of its rapid rotation rate of 1 rotation per 10 hours, the planet's shape is an oblate spheroid: it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator. The outer atmosphere is divided into a series of latitudinal bands, with turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result of this is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm which has been observed since at least 1831.

Jupiter is surrounded by a faint planetary ring system and has a powerful magnetosphere. The planet's magnetic tail is nearly 800 million kilometres (5.3 astronomical units; 500 million miles) long. Jupiter has 95 known moons and probably many more, including the four large moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Ganymede, the largest of the four, is larger than the planet Mercury. Callisto is the second largest; Io and Europa are approximately the size of Earth's moon.

Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter, making its closest approach to the planet in December 1973. Jupiter has since been explored by multiple robotic spacecraft, beginning with the Pioneer and Voyager flyby missions from 1973 to 1979. The Galileo orbiter arrived in orbit around Jupiter in 1995. In 2007, New Horizons visited Jupiter for a gravity assist to increase its speed and bend its trajectory on the way to Pluto. The latest probe to visit Jupiter, Juno, entered its orbit in July 2016. Future targets for exploration in the Jupiter system include its moon Europa, which probably has an ice-covered liquid ocean which scientists think could sustain life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter

Pronunciation examples for Jupiter

1. of Jupiter.

Mysteries Of The Universe and Cold Dark Matter _ Professor Carlos Frenk _ Talks at Google

2. The sunlight in Jupiter, on the satellites of Jupiter,

ted-talks_306_FreemanDyson_2003-320k

3. First stop, Jupiter.

Open Source on a Universal Scale _ Alyssa Goodman _ Talks at Google

4. a Jupiter mass.

Supernovae, Exoplanets, Black Holes _ Alex Filippenko _ Talks at Google

5. It's floating in Jupiter.

S Pete Worden & Chris DiBona _ Talks at Google

Examples of use of Jupiter

1. The Jupiter flyby trims the trip to Pluto by five years and provides opportunities to test the spacecraft‘s instruments and flyby capabilities on the Jupiter system.

2. This star also possesses two larger, Jupiter–size planets.

3. Larson, a housing analyst for Weiss Research in Jupiter, Fla.

4. Jupiter will be white, Mercury pinkish and Mars butterscotch–colored.

5. Most extrasolar planets found so far have been Jupiter–sized.