Jupiter: Consummate Jovian

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Jupiter Consummate Jovian

• Presented by
• Professor Harold Geller
• Department of Physics and Astronomy
• George Mason University

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What Im Going to Talk About

• Jupiter as a jovian planet
• mass
• diameter
• distance from sun
• chemical constituents
• formation
• atmosphere
• inner layers
• rings
• moons

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Jupiter Statistics

• Distance from sun
• 778.4 million km (5.2 AU)
• Orbital eccentricity and inclination
• 0.048 eccentricity
• 1.31 degrees inclination
• Orbital speed and period
• 13.1 km/s
• 11.86 years sidereal period
• Mass
• 1.99 x 1027 kg (317.8 x Earth)
• Equatorial Diameter
• 143,000 km (11.2 x Earth)

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More Jupiter Statistics

• Mean density
• 1.33 g/cm3 (0.24 x Earth)
• Surface gravity
• 24.8 m/s2 (2.53 x Earth)
• Escape velocity
• 59.5 km/s
• Axial tilt
• 3.08 degrees
• Temperature at cloud top
• 124 K
• Number of Moons
• Whats a moon anyway

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Where Are We?
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Jovians and Terrestrials
Relative size of all planets (distances NOT to
scale)
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Source James Schombert, University of Oregon
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Top-Level Look and See
Source James Schombert, University of Oregon
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NOT a Perfect Sphere
Source James Schombert, University of Oregon
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Source James Schombert, University of Oregon
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• Atmospheric Appearance
• Fluid Mechanics
• viscous flow
• turbulent flow
• eddies
• cyclones

Source James Schombert, University of Oregon
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Jupiters Interior
Source James Schombert, University of Oregon
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Jupiters Magnetic Field
Source James Schombert, University of Oregon
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Synchrotron Radiation
Source James Schombert, University of Oregon
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Jupiters Aurora
Source Clarke (Michigan) and NASA STScI