How Many Earths Can Fit in Jupiter?

Jupiter is known as the “King of the Planets”, and for good reason.

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For one, it is the largest planet in the Solar System, and is actually more massive than all the other planets combined.

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Fittingly, it is named after the king of the Roman pantheon, the latinized version of Zeus (the king of the Olympian gods).

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To break the whole size discrepancy down, Jupiter has a mean radius of 69,911 ± 6 km (60217.7 ± 3.7 mi).

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Compared this to Earth’s mean radius of 6,371.0 km (3,958.8 mi), and you could say that Earth fits into Jupiter almost 11 times over (10.97 to be exact).

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Jupiter has a volume of 1.43 x 1015 km³ (1,430 trillion cubic km; 343 trillion cubic mi) while Earth has a volume of 1.08 trillion km3 (259 million mi).

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Divide the one by the other, and you get a value of 1299, meaning you could fit almost 1300 Earth’s inside Jupiter.

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In short, the king of the planets is much, much, MUCH bigger than the planet we call home.

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Thank You!

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