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Gas giant · Outer Solar System
Jupiter
More massive than every other planet combined; the gravitational engine most outer-system tours borrowed. Moon count as recorded 2023.
- Mean distance
- 5.203 au
- Orbital period
- 11.862 y
- Diameter
- 142,984 km
- Mass
- 1,898 ×10²⁴ kg
- Known moons
- 95 (as recorded)
Values: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet — not network-verified in this run.
Listed without a figure position: JPL small-body orbital elements were not importable in this environment, and no position is invented.
Recorded encounters
- 1973 Pioneer 10Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
- 1974 Pioneer 11Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
- 1979 Voyager 1Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
- 1979 Voyager 2Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
- 1995 GalileoGalileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
- 2000 Cassini–HuygensCassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
- 2007 New HorizonsNew Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
- 2016 JunoJuno enters polar orbit around Jupiter
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).