Jupiter Facts

[Radrook]

Jupiter is a planet that catches our attention just by its sheer size as well as by the constant turbulence of its atmosphere. It seems to mimic a solar system all of its own with its many moons serving as its planets. Some have even imagined it to be a failed star. But of course its mass prohibits that from being so. Failed stars are actually brown giants which approach the required mass for nuclear fusion typical of stars much more closely than Jupiter does.
Brown Dwarfs: Failed Stars Resembling Planets

In any case, here are some details about our biggest planet.

The Romans named it after their god Jupiter.



It is the third-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus as seen from Earth.



It is the fifth planet from the Sun coming after Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

Powerful Magnetosphere
Jupiter has very powerful magnetosphere.

Generated by electrical currents in the planet's outer core which is composed of liquid metallic hydrogen, Jupiter’s Magentic field extends up to seven million kilometers in the Sun's direction and almost to the orbit of Saturn in the opposite direction and is the largest and most powerful of any other planetary magnetosphere in our solar system and by volume the largest known continuous structure in the Solar System after the heliosphere.

Also, unlike the Earth’s magnetic field which is influence by the solar wind, Jupiter’s is also influenced by the volcanic activity of its moon Io which continuously disgorges sulfur dioxide gas into space.

The field also generates auroras around the planet's poles.
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Unfortunately, it also traps and accelerates particles, producing intense belts of radiation similar to Earth's Van Allen belts, but thousands of times stronger which affect its largest moons creating a hazard for human exploration and even difficulties for unmanned probes which have to be heavily shielded against it in order to prevent damage and subsequent malfunction.

Jupiter - Wikipedia

Size and Mass:
It is the largest in the Solar System having an equatorial diameter of 142,984 km (88,846 mi).

Although it has a mass of only one-thousandth of the Sun’s, it is still two and a half times more massive than all the other planets in the Solar System combined or a mass of 317.8 Earths.

Rotation and Shape:

It has the fastest rotation of all the planets completing one rotation in ten hours. Because of its rapid rotation it is an oblate spheroid (having a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator).

Meaning that Jupiter’s equatorial diameter is 9,275 km (5,763 mi) longer than its diameter measured through the poles.

Distance from the Sun and orbital period:


Aphelion 5.45492 AU (816.04 Gm)

AU = distance from Earth to our Sun which is approx 93 million miles..

Which means that at its farthest, Jupiter is approx. five and a half times the distance from the sun than Earth is or approx 511,000.000.5 miles.

Perihelion 4.95029 AU (740.55 Gm)

Which means that at its closest, Jupiter is it is approx. four times the distance from the sun than our Earth’s average of 93 million miles or 465,000,000 miles.

So the average distance between Jupiter and the Sun is approx 5.2 times the average distance between Earth and the Sun, or 5.2 AU).

It orbits the Sun once every 11.8618 Earth years. or every 4,332.59 Earth days. So on Jupiter a 22 year only man would be a Jupiteraian two-year old and a 44 year old man a Jupitarean four-year-old Doesn’t mean you will age slower just means you will be able to claim that age based on the planet’s yearly rotation rate.

 

[CrystalDragon]

I actually have a telescope at home and was able to see Jupiter when it was closer to Earth in its orbit, really cool.

 

[Radrook]

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I actually have a telescope at home and was able to see Jupiter when it was closer to Earth in its orbit, really cool.

You must have clear skies at your location. I grew up on the USA East Coast and only a few stars were visible so I assumed that was the way that the sky looked everywhere until I visited an island in the Caribbean and the whole sky seemed to explode with brilliant dots of light. That kind of a sky inspires star gazing. But the sky here discourages it. I had been taken to a planetarium when I was approx. five years old and imagined that such a sky was imagine actually. That visit gave me a lifelong interest in astronomy. I have considered viewing the Sun since that is definitely viewable despite the smog.

 

[CrystalDragon]

You must have clear skies at your location. I grew up on the USA East Coast and only a few stars were visible so I assumed that was the way that the sky looked everywhere until I visited an island in the Caribbean and the whole sky seemed to explode with brilliant dots of light. That kind of a sky inspires star gazing. But the sky here discourages it. I had been taken to a planetarium when I was approx. five years old and imagined that such a sky was imagine actually. That visit gave me a lifelong interest in astronomy. I have considered viewing the Sun since that is definitely viewable despite the smog.

I'm an East Coaster as well but live in a rural area, so skies can be pretty clear. I know what you mean though, I went to Hawaii in January 2016 and you could see so many stars in the sky that it wowed me.

 

[Radrook]

I'm an East Coaster as well but live in a rural area, so skies can be pretty clear. I know what you mean though, I went to Hawaii in January 2016 and you could see so many stars in the sky that it wowed me.

How much detail of Jupiter were you able to observe with your telescope?
How much magnification did it have?

 

[CrystalDragon]

How much detail of Jupiter were you able to observe with your telescope?
How much magnification did it have?

I forget the magnification, it was several years ago, but I was able to see the Great Red Spot and I think one of the moons.

 

[Radrook]

I forget the magnification, it was several years ago, but I was able to see the Great Red Spot and I think one of the moons.

I often wonder why God would create such a place. One religious magazine began to mention how Jupiter deflects many incoming objects for reaching the inner solar system where our Earth is located. But that doesn't make sense since why hurl objects at the Earth in the first place? That is unless the Devil is hurling them and God is deflecting them via Jupiter. But that would be rather silly-correct?

 

[CrystalDragon]

I often wonder why God would create such a place. One religious magazine began to mention how Jupiter deflects many incoming objects for reaching the inner solar system where our Earth is located. But that doesn't make sense since why hurl objects at the Earth in the first place? That is unless the Devil is hurling them and God is deflecting them via Jupiter. But that would be rather silly-correct?

Yeah, that would be silly—assuming that would imply that Satan has enough power to hurl meteors near Earth (or in close proximity) if he wanted, which would put him on a level similar to the gods of Greek/Roman mythology.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

I often wonder why God would create such a place. One religious magazine began to mention how Jupiter deflects many incoming objects for reaching the inner solar system where our Earth is located. But that doesn't make sense since why hurl objects at the Earth in the first place? That is unless the Devil is hurling them and God is deflecting them via Jupiter. But that would be rather silly-correct?

Planets are formed through gravity, not through supernatural shenannigans.

 

[Radrook]

Planets are formed through gravity, not through supernatural shenannigans.

I never claimed that gravity isn't involved.

 

[Radrook]

Yeah, that would be silly—assuming that would imply that Satan has enough power to hurl meteors near Earth (or in close proximity) if he wanted, which would put him on a level similar to the gods of Greek/Roman mythology.

Well, he is called a god and does has enough power to influence the governments and deceive.

2 Corinthians 4:4 NIV
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

He was granted enough power to cause whirlwinds wreaking havoc on Job's family. He had enough power to materialize and have relation with women. To possess the bodies o certain people. To mimic all the plagues brought on Egypt.

Since mankind rejected God what the limits placed on of those powers are in reference to our Earth and humans and universe is open to debate. So what are a few meteors just for sport? You know, just to keep the nerves on edge.

BTW
Christians tend to view such false deities as Jupiter as being alternate representations of Satan and his demons.

1 Corinthians 10:2 NIV

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

I never claimed that gravity isn't involved.

Your question was "why would god create such a place", clearly implying that jupiter is the result of a decision to create followed by an act of creation.

That is simply not how planets originate.
There is no creation. There is a formation.

 

[Radrook]

Here is a diameter comparison between Jupiter and the Sun and Jupiter and Jupiter and the earth.

you could fit almost 1300 Earth’s inside Jupiter.


Rough visual comparison of Jupiter, Earth, and the Great Red Spot. Approximate scale is 44 km/px. Credit: NASA/Brian0918/ Wikipedia Commons

 

[Radrook]

Your question was "why would god create such a place", clearly implying that jupiter is the result of a decision to create followed by an act of creation.

That is simply not how planets originate.
There is no creation. There is a formation.

Formation and creation aren't mutually exclusive.

 

[CrystalDragon]

Well, he is called a god and does has enough power to influence the governments and deceive.

2 Corinthians 4:4 NIV
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

He was granted enough power to cause whirlwinds wreaking havoc on Job's family. He had enough power to materialize and have relation with women. To possess the bodies o certain people. To mimic all the plagues brought on Egypt.

Since mankind rejected God what the limits placed on of those powers are in reference to our Earth and humans and universe is open to debate. So what are a few meteors just for sport? You know, just to keep the nerves on edge.

BTW
Christians tend to view such false deities as Jupiter as being alternate representations of Satan and his demons.

1 Corinthians 10:2 NIV

No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.

Calling Satan a "god" though seems to indicate by default that there's more than one god, just at different power levels and Yahweh being the Supreme God, going from monotheism to polytheism, in a sense.

And I think some tend to view the gods of other cultures as being "alternate representations of Satan and his demons" because they automatically think "Oh, something that seems like a supernatural god from another culture is not our god, it must be Satan/demons!", who's to say any of those "gods" in other cultures had any power in the first place, wouldn't they just be man-made?

Although, there were points in the Bible where other tribes sacrificed to other gods, at one point (2 Kings 3) when one tribe sacrificed to another god "an outburst of divine anger was kindled against Israel" and thus Israel lost even though God was with them. That would seem to imply that there are other "gods" in a sense—why would God even have any demons be able to exercise any sort of power anyway? Do such things mean that the Jews were actually henotheistic (saying several gods exist but worshipping only one) rather than monotheistic?

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

Formation and creation aren't mutually exclusive.

In this context, they are.

 

[Radrook]

Calling Satan a "god" though seems to indicate by default that there's more than one god, just at different power levels and Yahweh being the Supreme God, going from monotheism to polytheism, in a sense.

And I think some tend to view the gods of other cultures as being "alternate representations of Satan and his demons" because they automatically think "Oh, something that seems like a supernatural god from another culture is not our god, it must be Satan/demons!", who's to say any of those "gods" in other cultures had any power in the first place, wouldn't they just be man-made?

Although, there were points in the Bible where other tribes sacrificed to other gods, at one point (2 Kings 3) when one tribe sacrificed to another god "an outburst of divine anger was kindled against Israel" and thus Israel lost even though God was with them. That would seem to imply that there are other "gods" in a sense—why would God even have any demons be able to exercise any sort of power anyway? Do such things mean that the Jews were actually henotheistic (saying several gods exist but worshipping only one) rather than monotheistic?

Here are various definitions of the term ""god".

god

(gŏd)

n.

1. God

a. A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions.

b. The force, effect, or a manifestation or aspect of this being.

2. A being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality.

3. An image of a supernatural being; an idol.

4. One that is worshiped, idealized, or followed: Money was their god.

god

Philippians 3:19 NIV
Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.



One definition would make anything or anyone who is worshiped a god.
Another is that it refers to a supernatural being.



So based on those two criterion Satan is a god.



BTW

His demons might inspire representations of themselves in harmony with some preferred quality and in that way receive offerings and worship in an indirect way.



1 Timothy 4:1 NIV
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

The angel Gabriel wsas opposed by a demon in charge of Persia.

Daniel:10:13But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia

 

[CrystalDragon]

Here are various definitions of the term ""god".




Philippians 3:19 NIV
Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.



One definition would make anything or anyone who is worshiped a god.
Another is that it refers to a supernatural being.



So based on those two criterion Satan is a god.



BTW

His demons might inspire representations of themselves in harmony with some preferred quality and in that way receive offerings and worship in an indirect way.



1 Timothy 4:1 NIV
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

The angel Gabriel wsas opposed by a demon in charge of Persia.

Daniel:10:13But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia

In that case though, wouldn't it be more accurate to say we're henotheistic rather than monotheistic?

 

[Radrook]

In that case though, wouldn't it be more accurate to say we're henotheistic rather than monotheistic?

Seems that way.

 

[Aldebaran]

How much detail of Jupiter were you able to observe with your telescope?
How much magnification did it have?

I'm not sure if you're totally familiar with telescopes and how they work, but the first thing to look for is the diameter of the objective, whether it's a lens on the front end, or the mirror on the back end, depending on the type of scope it is. I had an 8" reflector and usually used 30x to 90x magnification. More than that made images blurry and distorted. The detail I saw on Jupiter was mostly several of the cloud bands. Of course, the 4 largest moons could clearly be seen, but those can be seen with even a smaller scope. Also, planets are easily observed under the sky conditions you have in urbans areas. Galaxies, nebulae, star clusters and other such faint objects need a much darker location. Once you're in a dark sky setting and have a good scope, you're in for a real treat!