Does anyone know how many miles it is for Jupiter to orbit the sun? I am helping a friend out with a report, and I cannot find this information! Please help! Thanks SO much
2006-10-21 12:44:38 · 4 answers · asked by Nicole83 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
5 astronomical units, or 465 million miles.
2006-10-21 12:51:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
5 AU is the distance from the sun. If you want the miles traveled by jupiter during an orbit it's approximately 6.8*10 to the 17th miles or 679,285,973,250,000,000. It's probably a bit more since the orbit isn't a perfect circle but that's a close number
2006-10-21 13:09:19 · answer #2 · answered by Scott L 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't know miles but:
Jupiter is more than four times further from the Sun than Earth and it takes Jupiter about 12 years to complete one orbit around the Sun
2006-10-21 12:54:05 · answer #3 · answered by chuck16023 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jupiter is about 480 million miles from the sun. Multiply by 2 and you get the diameter of the orbit, 960 million miles. Multiply that by pi and you get the circumference or distance ofthe orbit itself, 3.016 billion miles.
2006-10-21 13:34:18 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋