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Because Jupiter is further from the Sun and thus has a greater distance to travel.
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What moon of Jupiter is bigger than mercury?
Both Titan and Ganymede are larger than Mercury and Pluto.
What 5 planets that take less than 29 years to orbit the sun?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter.
Which is bigger Mercury or Jupiter?
The biggest planet, Jupiter's diameter is a huge 142,740 km, while the smallest planet, Mercury's diameter is a tiny 4,880 km. So, it would take 28.4 Mercurys to equal the diameter of Jupiter.
Is the orbit of Jupiter larger than the orbit of Earth?
Yes, Jupiter is about 5 times as far from the Sun.
Why doesn't Jupiter orbit its moons?
Jupiter doesn't orbit its moons because it has a greater mass than them.
Which planets take less than a year 2 orbit the sun?
Mercury and Venus take less time to orbit the Sun than the Earth does. ummm...if you need 5 then...earth, venus, mercury, mars and jupiter
What moon of Jupiter is bigger than mercury?
Both Titan and Ganymede are larger than Mercury and Pluto.
What 5 planets that take less than 29 years to orbit the sun?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter.
How much farther from the sun is Jupiter than mercury?
The average distance from the Sun to Jupiter is 721 million kilometres more than the distance from the Sun to Mercury.
How many times larger than mercury is Jupiter?
Jupiter is about 28.4 times larger than Mercury. You could fit about 23,000 Mercury's inside Jupiter.
Is there less gravity on Mercury or more?
false because mercury is closer to the sun than Jupiter
Which is bigger Mercury or Jupiter?
The biggest planet, Jupiter's diameter is a huge 142,740 km, while the smallest planet, Mercury's diameter is a tiny 4,880 km. So, it would take 28.4 Mercurys to equal the diameter of Jupiter.
Describe planets that orbit Jupiter?
No planets orbit Jupiter. Jupiter is orbited by more than 60 moons, however. The four largest are visible from earth through a modest telescope. These four are known as the Galilean moons, as they were observed by Galileo 400 years ago. The largest of the four is Ganymede, a moon that is larger than the planet Mercury (though perhaps not quite as massive).
What is a year on Jupiter?
Jupiter has an orbital period of 4,331.5 Earth days or about 11.86 years. Its orbit is much longer than Earth's, and it also moves more slowly in its orbit. Jupiter's orbit is roughly 11.86 Earth years long.
Is Jupiter slow to orbit around the sun or fast?
Jupiter orbits the sun much more slowly than the Earth does.
How are Jupiter and Mercury similar?
Both are planets, both orbit the Sun. Other than that, they are QUITE different.
Which objects orbit is even more eccentric than the orbit of mercury?
Pluto's is, and almost all of the comets' are.
