Jupiter
Jupiter is the giant of the solar system, with a mass more than 300 times the mass of the Earth and is called after the ancient Roman sky-god, Jupiter, known to the Greeks as Zeus. Jupiter has a diameter of 88,700 miles, or 142,750 kilometers. Jupiter is the fifth planet in order from the Sun and is about 483 million miles, or 777 million kilometers from the sun. The earth is much closer to the Sun than it is to Jupiter. Jupiter is the first of the “gas giants”, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.