Show FACTS ABOUT JUPITER wonderful rail fan to express anouch concerning the great our most eminent astronomers do not pretend to give us exact realton ings on the great floating worlds outside of our own solar system but within that monstrous aggregation everything has been reduced to certainty the kingpin of the solar system i is jupiter mighty jupiter the colossal giant of sun his diameter is about ot of our miles being about eleven times that ot of our own globe the circumference 2 miles at vie equator which would give the giant a volume exceeding that of the earth by 1284 times were it possible to bring the earth and jupiter so close together that the dis tance separating them would be no greater than that which now separates the earth from the moon about miles what wondrous sight would be in store for the residents of our little globe the world of jupiter would appear to us to have a diameter forty times larger than that of our usual mighty attendant and the surface of his disk would occupy a space greater than that of 1600 full moons moona and this giant of the planets is removed from the sun by a distance ot of miles has an orbit of more than miles in extent and makes a circuit of its celestial track once every days thus it will be seen that a year on jupiter is equal to eleven years ten mout months ha and seventeen days on our globe the immensity of the world of jupiter and its orbit I 1 may be e approximately measured by by this comparison in order to complete comple Ce its orbit in the time div given en above it must speed around the sun with a velocity of miles a day ot or a little more than eight miles per second |