Jupiter
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Jupiter_and_its_shrunken_Great_Red_Spot.jpg/220px-Jupiter_and_its_shrunken_Great_Red_Spot.jpg)
Jupiter(seembol:;forbye cawedJubiter[1]) is the fiftplanetfrae theSunan thelairgestplanet in theSolar System.It is agas giantwi amassae-thoosandt that o the Sun but is twa-an-a-hauf times the mass o aw the ither planets in the Solar System pitten thegither. Jupiter is clessifee'd as a gas giant alang wiSaturn,UranusanNeptune.Thegither, thir fower planets is whiles referred tae as theJovianor ooter planets. The planet wis kent biastronomerso auncient times,[2]an wis associate wi the meethology an religious beliefs o mony culturs. TheRomansnamed the planet efter theRoman godJupiter.[3]Whan viewed frae theYird,Jupiter can reach anapparent magnitudeo −2.94, bricht eneuch tae cast shaidaes,[4]an makkin it on average the third-brichtest object in thenicht liftefter theMuinanVenus.(Maurscan briefly match Jupiter's brichtness atcertaint pyntsin its orbit.)
Jupiter is componed maistly ohydrogenwi a quarter o its mass beinhelium,awtho helium only comprises aboot a tent o the nummer o molecules. It micht an aa hae a rocky core o hivier elements,[5]but lik the ither gas giants, Jupiter disna hae a weel-defined solit surface. Acause o its rapid rotation, the planet's shape is that o anoblate spheroid(it haes a slicht but noticeable bulge aroond the equator). The ooter atmosphere is visibly segregatit intae several bands at different latitudes, resultin in turbulence an stairms alang thair interactin boundaries. A prominent result is theGreat Reid Spot,a giant stairm that is kent tae hae existit syne at least the 17t century whan it wis first seen bitelescope.Surroondin Jupiter is a faintplanetar ringsystem an a pouerfulmagnetosphere.Thare are atour at least 67 muins, includin the fower lairge muins cried theGalilean muinsthat wis first discovered biGalileo Galileiin 1610.Ganymede,the lairgest o thir muins, haes a diameter greater than that o the planetMercury.
Jupiter haes been explored on several occasions birobotic spacecraft,maist notably durin the earlyPioneeranVoyagerflyby missions an later bi theGalileo orbiter.The maist recent probe tae visit Jupiter wis thePluto-boondNew Horizonsspacecraft in late Februar 2007. The probeuised the gravityfrae Jupiter tae increase its speed. Futur tairgets for exploration in the Jovian system includes the possible ice-covert liquid ocean on the muinEuropa.
References
[eedit|eedit soorce]- ↑Horsbroch, Dauvit."Jubiter".Scots Language Centre.Retrieved4 September2020.
- ↑De Crespigny, Rafe."Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling"(PDF).Asian studies, Online Publications.Archived frae the original on 7 September 2006.Retrieved1 Mey2012.
Xu Huang apparently complained that the astronomy office had failed to give them proper emphasis to the eclipse and to other portents, including the movement of the planet Jupiter (taisui). At his instigation, Chen Shou/Yuan was summoned and questioned, and it was under this pressure that his advice implicated Liang Ji.
CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link) - ↑Stuart Ross Taylor (2001).Solar system evolution: a new perspective: an inquiry into the chemical composition, origin, and evolution of the solar system(2nd, illus., revised ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 208.ISBN0-521-64130-6.
- ↑"Young astronomer captures a shadow cast by Jupiter: Bad Astronomy".Blogs.discovermagazine. 18 November 2011. Archived fraethe originalon 2 Julie 2013.Retrieved27 Mey2013.
- ↑Saumon, D.; Guillot, T. (2004). "Shock Compression of Deuterium and the Interiors of Jupiter and Saturn".The Astrophysical Journal.609(2): 1170–1180.arXiv:astro-ph/0403393.Bibcode:2004ApJ...609.1170S.doi:10.1086/421257.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link)