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That's the speed it needs for a stable orbit around the Sun. Any object at the distance of Jupiter (from the Sun) that moves much faster than that will be catapulted out of the Solar System; if it moves much slower than that, it will fall towards the Sun. 8 miles per second is approximately 13 km/second; for comparison, the Earth moves around the Sun at a speed of about 30 km/second. Being closer to the Sun, it must move faster to remain in a stable orbit.
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How many miles per second does shuttle travel in orbit?
About 4.7 miles per second.
How many miles does the earth orbit around the sun in a second?
18 miles per second
What is the speed of Jupiter's orbit in Miles per hour?
go find another website to look it up
How fast is the Juno traveling to Jupiter?
19 miles per SECOND.
What is Jupiter's revolution speed?
Jupiter's average revolution speed is 3.06 kilometers per second. It takes Jupiter 12 years to orbit once around the Sun.
How fast does Jupiter travel?
The orbital speed of Jupiter as it travels around the Sun is 13.07 kilometers per second. The average surface speed as it rotates is 12.6 kilometers per second.
How fast the earth speedsof its orbit around the sun?
18.5 miles per second.
The distance from the sun to Jupiter is 778000000000 miles so How long does it take for light from the sun to reach Jupiter?
You seem have too many zeros. Jupiter is 778 million Kilometers (778,000,000), NOT miles from the Sun. The number of miles is about 484 million (484,000,000). Light will take just over 40 minutes to reach Jupiter. The speed of light is abut 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second)
How does observing the moons of Jupiter measure the speed of light?
It has to do with the amount of time it takes the the light from the moon of Jupiter to reach the earth depending on if the earth is on the same side of the sun as Jupiter compared to the opposite side of the sun from Jupiter. Because of the time difference for the light to arrive, the orbit of the moons appear late in passing behind or in front of Jupiter when earth is on the opposite side of the sun from Jupiter, compared to when it is on the same side. This time difference is then the time it takes the light to travel the diameter of the earth's orbit around the sun. Velocity is then simply distance divided by time.Of course you still need to know how to calculate the diameter of the earth's orbit around the sun in the 17th century, but that's another answer!Look up the astronomer named Ole Christensen Rømer he was the one who noticed this first, his estimate was 11 minutes difference, and resulted in a figure of 130,000 miles per second. 186,300 miles per second or 299,792 km per second is the actual speed.
The dying comet fragments that continued to batter Jupiter travel at speeds of about?
58,117 meters per second or 130,000 miles per hour.
How long would it take Pluto at its farthest distance away from the sun to orbit the sun if it was traveling at 62500 miles per second?
The distance of Pluto doesn't matter, since the orbit would be the same no matter how fast Pluto travels.The orbit of Pluto is about 22,698,700,000 miles long. if Pluto traveled that distance at 62500 miles per second, it would take 363179.2 seconds or about 100 hours to orbit the Sun.
What is the average speed of Jupiter in hours?
scientist say 9 miles per second amazing oh! yeah!
