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Jupiter from 77,6 MKM
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Did you know that the "Planet With The Shortest Day" is Jupiter?
The planet Jupiter has the shortest day of all the nine major planets in the Solar System: it spins around on its axis once every 9 hrs 55 mins and 29,69 secs. Jupiter is about five times further from the Sun than the Earth and so it's years are much longer than Earth years: Jupiter completes one "year" in 4.332,6 Earth days. Jupiter is also one of the brightest objects in the night sky (jointly with the star Syrius and planet Venus in our Northern Hemisphere and with the Alpha and Beta Centauri star system in the Southern Hemisphere).
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