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Old February 13th 19, 12:30 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Mark Earnest[_2_]
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Default Jupiter was 5 times as Big

On Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at 4:37:08 PM UTC-6, palsing wrote:
On Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at 11:40:07 AM UTC-8, Herbert Glazier wrote:

This is shown to us by its very fast spin.Bert


Why do you consider Jupiter to be spinning very fast, Bert?

Earth rotates once in 24 hours; Jupiter once in about 9.5 hours... so kits rotational rate is much slower than Earth's.


If it spun any faster there would not be any Jupiter.