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Jupiter comparison table

Subject	has has albedo	has has surface temperature	has has mean orbital velocity	is an instance of	has polar radiu	has inclination	has eccentricity	has has synodic period	has oblateness	has been observ	has obliquity	has central density	has mean density 1.33 g cm-3< sup>	has magnetic axis inclination	has atmosphere composition	has surface gravity	has magnetic axis offset	has rotational period	has composition	has magnetic field	has core composition	is a kind of	has semi-major axi	has apparent magnitude	has mass	has equatorial radiu	has motion relative to star	has has orbital period	has synonym	has definition	has escape velocity	has central temperature
gas giant																			Mostly made of various light elements such as gases and simple compounds			planet			greater than Pluto's mass and less massive than ten times Jupiter's mass				Jovian planet	Giant planet that has a gaseous surface.
naked eye planet										for many centuries									various elements			planet		brighter than 5	greater than Pluto's mass and less massive than ten times Jupiter's mass		epicycloidal			a planet in our solar system visible to the unaided eye
superior planet																			various elements			planet			greater than Pluto's mass and less massive than ten times Jupiter's mass					Planets farther from the Sun than the Earth is (i.e., Mars to Pluto).
Jupiter	0.51	120 K	13.06 km s-1	naked eye planet	6.7 × 109 cm	i = 1°18'18"	e = 0.048	398.9 days	0.065 (from Pioneer 10)	for many centuries	3°.1	35 megabar		15° to the rotational axis (data from Pioneer 10)	primarily H2 (85%) and He (14%), with traces of methane, ammonia	2.7 that of Earth	0.1 Jupiter radius from the center of the planet (data from Pioneer 10)	9h50m at equator; 9h55m at polar regions (see Systems I and II longitude).	Mostly made of various light elements such as gases and simple compounds	4 gauss (data from Pioneer 10)	metallic hydrogen in a pressure-ionized liquid phase		5.203 AU	brighter than 5	1.90 × 1030 g = 318 MEarth	7.135 × 109 cm = 11 REarth	epicycloidal	11.86 years	Jovian planet	Fifth planet from the Sun. It is more massive than all other planets and satellites combined; if it were about 80 times more massive, it would become self-luminous due to fusion reactions. The heat flux to from the center to the surface is mainly convective. For both Jupiter and Saturn it is necessary to invoke a substantial source of internal heating (presumably gravitational contraction) to account for the surface temperature (Jupiter radiates about 2 1/2 times as much heat as it receives from the Sun). Jupiter's surface shows pronounced horizontal striations: the light layers (zones) are at a slightly higher altitude and about 15° cooler than the dark layers (belts). It is surrounded by a partial torus of atomic H in the orbit of Io. Thirteen satellites, the four outermost of which have retrograde motion, high eccentricity, and high inclination. (Jupiter XIII, discovered in 1974, has a period of 239 days; i = 26°.7, e = 0.147.)	Vesc = 61 km s-1	5 × 104 K

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