Jupiter
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Distancia a la Tierra
5.4539 AU
815,897,781 km
Tiempo de la luz
45m 22s
a la velocidad de la luz
Computed 2026-11-04 00:22 UTC · planets astronomy-engine (VSOP87) · comets JPL elements (two-body)
Physical data
- Mean radius
- 69,911 km
- Equatorial radius
- 71,492 km
- Mass
- 1,898.125 × 10²⁴ kg
- Density
- 1.3262 g/cm³
- Surface gravity
- 24.79 m/s²
- Escape velocity
- 60.2 km/s
- Rotation period
- 0.41354 days
- Orbital period
- 11.8626 years
- Albedo
- 0.52
- Absolute magnitude V(1,0)
- -9.4 mag
Source:NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Semi-major axis
- 5.2029 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.048386
- Inclination
- 1.3044°
Source:NASA JPL Solar System Dynamics · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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In everyday life
- Its diameter is about 11 times Earth's (radius 69,911 km ÷ Earth's 6,371 km).
- It takes about 11.9 Earth years to orbit the Sun.
- Sunlight needs about 43 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 5.2 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.