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Score breakdown
· 7 badges
115 pts · Anomaly
Anomaly120 pts → Mythic
Major planet+40
Largest planet+26
The Great Red Spot+16
Sprawling moon system+12
Has a proper name+8
Has a ring system+8
Has moons+5
Total score115
5 more points to reach Mythic.
Badges
🔶Major planet· +40
🏷️Has a proper name· +8
⭕Has a ring system· +8
🐘Largest planet· +26
🔴The Great Red Spot· +16
🌙Has moons· +5
🌜Sprawling moon system· +12
✨ Trivia
Hard to believe
🌀The great storm. It carries a single storm wider than the whole Earth, which astronomers have been watching continuously since at least the 1830s.
🏆The heavyweight. It outweighs every other planet in the Solar System put together, twice over.
What it actually is
🛰️A system of its own. At least 97 moons orbit it — more a miniature solar system than a planet, and the count still climbs as surveys get sharper.
Sense of scale
🌍Against Earth. It is 11 times wider than Earth, and about 1321 Earths would fit inside it.
🗺️Ground to cover. Its whole surface adds up to about 61.4 billion km² — roughly 412.5 times Earth's dry land.
🚶Walk around it. Walking right round its equator, eight hours a day, would take about 30.1 years.
Standing on it
💍Rings overhead. Its rings are billions of icy fragments, most no bigger than a house, spread into a sheet only tens of metres thick.
By the numbers
📐Size. About 139.8 thousand km across.
Properties
aphelion au
5.4546
color
#d6b388
diameter km
139822
eccentricity
0.0484
great red spot
yes
inclination
1.304
largest planet
yes
name
Jupiter
named
yes
num moons
97
orbital period days
4332.589
perihelion au
4.9511
radius km
69911
rings
yes
semi major au
5.2029
About Jupiter
Jupiter is an anomaly planet. It completes an orbit every 4,332.59 days and swings within 4.951 AU of the Sun at perihelion.
At least 97 moons orbit it — more a miniature solar system than a planet, and the count still climbs as surveys get sharper.
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Jupiter is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. Because it moves against the background stars, the live position panel on this page tracks where it is right now. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Jupiter is an anomaly planet
Jupiter scores 115 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 7 science badges — Major planet, Has a proper name, Has a ring system, Largest planet, The Great Red Spot, Has moons and Sprawling moon system — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.
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