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Jupiter is a lot like a very small unignited star. It consists mainly of gases. The inner planets are the rocky planets, since the original materials in the accretion disk contained a lot of rocky material. The gases in the disk tended to be pushed further out by solar wind which is theoretically why the gas giants, including Saturn, Jupiter Uranus and Neptune, formed further out from the sun. The gas giants do have small cores of rocky material. We tend to think of planets as being earth-like because earth is the planet with which we have the most experience. In fact, we have found a few gas giants around stars other than our own sun. Gas giants are not unusual as planets go; on the contrary, they seem to be abundant.

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