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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. 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

  4. 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.

  5. Rotation period (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy, the rotation period or spin period [1] of a celestial object (e.g., star, planet, moon, asteroid) has two definitions. The first one corresponds to the sidereal rotation period (or sidereal day ), i.e., the time that the object takes to complete a full rotation around its axis relative to the background stars ( inertial space ).

  6. 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

  7. Diurnal motion - Wikipedia

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    Per a certain period of time, a given angular distance travelled by an object along or near the celestial equator may be compared to the angular diameter of one of the following objects: up to one Sun or Moon diameter (about 0.5° or 30') every 2 minutes; up to one diameter of the planet Venus in inferior conjunction (about 1' or 60") about ...

  8. Kepler's laws of planetary motion - Wikipedia

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    The orbits are ellipses, with foci F 1 and F 2 for Planet 1, and F 1 and F 3 for Planet 2. The Sun is at F 1.; The shaded areas A 1 and A 2 are equal, and are swept out in equal times by Planet 1's orbit.

  9. 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 ...