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  2. Jupiter - Wikipedia

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    Its diameter is eleven times that of Earth, and a tenth that of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm), with an orbital period of 11.86 years. It is the third-brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky, after the Moon and Venus, and has been observed since prehistoric times.

  3. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

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    The eccentricity of the orbit of the Earth makes the time from the March equinox to the September equinox, ... Jupiter 5.20336 4332.8201 7.504 ... Earth and Sun, ...

  4. Category:Jupiter in film - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Jupiter in film" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ... The Wandering Earth 2

  5. Jupiter actually does not orbit the sun - AOL

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    In science class, we always learned that all the planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. Scientists have figured out this is not necessarily true. Jupiter actually does not orbit the sun

  6. 2010: The Year We Make Contact - Wikipedia

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    2010: The Year We Make Contact (titled on-screen as 2010) is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot, and directed by Peter Hyams.The film is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and adapts Arthur C. Clarke's 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two.

  7. Differential rotation - Wikipedia

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    The reciprocal of the rotational shear is the lap time, i.e. the time it takes for the equator to do a full lap more than the poles. The relative differential rotation rate is the ratio of the rotational shear to the rotation rate at the equator: α = Δ Ω Ω 0 {\displaystyle \alpha ={\frac {\Delta \Omega }{\Omega _{0}}}}

  8. A Beautiful Planet - Wikipedia

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    The Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti in the Space Station's Cupola module, where many of the movie's scenes of Earth were filmed. A Beautiful Planet provides close-up footage of the Cupola, a domed, 360 degree observation bay on the nadir (Earth-facing) side of the Station's Tranquility module / Node 3. It has seven windows in total ...

  9. Historical models of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Approximate sizes of the planets relative to each other. Outward from the Sun, the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Jupiter's diameter is about 11 times that of the Earth's and the Sun's diameter is about 10 times Jupiter's. The planets are not shown at the appropriate distance from the Sun.