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Like all planets, Jupiter does not travel in a perfect circle around the Sun, but in an ellipse. At its closest, Jupiter reaches 741 million km from the Sun. At its furthest, 817 million km.
Jupiter's orbit takes 4331.6 days approx.
Ganymede, the moon of Jupiter, is in orbit around Jupiter so its transit around the Sun would be the same as Jupiter's, about 11.8 Earth years. 1036 Ganymede, the asteroid, has an orbital period of about 4.34 Earth years.
Not hours - Jupiter orbits around the Sun in 11.86 years.
It is about 5 hours, on average, during one orbit around the Sun. That's about half the rotation period of Jupiter.
it has a lighter mass.
Jupiter does not orbit the sun in a perfect circle
Jupiter goes around the sun
Like all planets, Jupiter does not travel in a perfect circle around the Sun, but in an ellipse. At its closest, Jupiter reaches 741 million km from the Sun. At its furthest, 817 million km.
Jupiter takes about 11.86 Earth years to orbit around the Sun once.
12 years
Jupiter's orbit takes 4331.6 days approx.
11 Earth years
4,332,59 days
The planet Jupiter takes 4,332.71 days to orbit the Sun. That's 11.86 years.
88 Days
it takes ten hours for it to travel around the sun