It might not be life or death important, but given that we're all curious cats, it is important for following (and by no means is the list exhaustive) it could be "important":
1. Analysing the motion of Jupiter which helps in analyzing a lot of it's properties as well.
2. Makes for useful data when launching exploratory satellites to gather information about Jupiter.
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Jupiter is the 5th planet, at a distance of 779 million kilometres away from the sun.
Jupiter's average distance from the sun is 483.5 million miles (778 million kilometers).
480,000,000 miles or 778,330,000 km
The average distance from Jupiter to the Sun is : Maximum:74,029,824 km Minimum:74,000,000 km
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun.
Jupiters orbital speed in relation to the sun is 13.07 km/sec on average.
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Jupiter is small.
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