Questions and Answers
Planet Jupiter - astronomy questions
1.
Does Jupiter have a solid surface?
no
2.
The first person to actually view Jupiter in a telescope was?
Galileo
3.
Jupiter was discovered in year:
1610
4.
What is significant about jupiter's density?
it's close to the density of water, metallic core not possible, it has frozen ammonia surface under layers of clouds
5.
What is at the very center of jupiter?
rocky core
6.
What comet struck jupiter providing information about impacts?
Shoemaker-Levy 9
7.
4 largest Jupiter's mooon are called:
Galilean moons
8.
What is the largest moon out of Jupiter's moons?
Ganymede
9.
Moon on this photography is:
Europa
10.
Io
11.
Jupiter has the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System, spanning over
5,000 km
12.
The average distance between Jupiter and the Sun is:
5.2 AU