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Jupiter is not considered a miniature planet. It is a gas giant planet. It is like a miniature sun, however, in that it seems to have most of the ingredients to become a sun. What it doesn't have is enough mass to create enough pressure from gravity, to start a nuclear reaction -- which is what suns (stars) do.

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