“Outer Planets” 23.3

Jupiter
•	Mass = 2.5 times larger than all other planets & moons!
–	Big Sucka.
•	Rotation = 10 hrs
–	Fast!
–	Elliptical shape
•	Colored Bands!
–	Clouds
–	Red Spot = Big storm!
Structure & Moons
•	Gas  Liquid  Metallic Hydrogen
•	28 moons.
–	“io” = volcano moon!
Saturn
•	Similar comp. to Jupiter.
•	Much farther away!
•	Atm = windy!
–	1500 km/hr
•	Rings.
–	Ice & Rock

Uranus
•	Rotates on its “side”
–	“somersaulting”
•	Rings!

Neptune
•	“Windy Planet”
–	1000 km/hr winds!
–	Clouds
•	13 moons
•	Rings
Pluto
Very, very, very far away.
•	248 years to orbit sun.
•	Not always the farthest away!
–	Eccentricity!