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	Jupiter	Earth
Discovered By	Known by the Ancients	Known by the Ancients
Date of Discovery	Unknown	Unknown
Average Orbit Distance	778,340,821 km	149,598,262 km
Perihelion (closest)	740,679,835 km	147,098,291 km
Aphelion (farthest)	816,001,807 km	152,098,233 km
Equatorial Radius	69,911 km	6,371.00 km
Equatorial Circumference	439,263.8 km	40,030.2 km
Volume	1,431,281,810,739,360 km3	1,083,206,916,846 km3
Mass	1,898,130,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg	5,972,190,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
Density	1.326 g/cm3	5.513 g/cm3
Surface Area	61,418,738,571 km2	510,064,472 km2
Equatorial Surface Gravity	24.79 m/s2	9.80665 m/s2
Escape Velocity	216,720 km/h	40,284 km/h
Rotation Period (Length of Day)	0.41354 sidereal days	0.99726968 sidereal days
Orbit Period (Length of Year)	11.862615 sidereal years	1.0000174 sidereal years
Mean Orbit Velocity	47,002 km/h	107,218 km/h
Orbit Eccentricity	0.04838624	0.01671123
Orbit Inclination to Ecliptic	1.304 degrees	0.00005 degrees
Equatorial Inclination to Orbit	3.1 degrees	23.4393 degrees
Orbit Circumference	4,887,595,931 km	939,887,974 km
Atmospheric Constituents	Hydrogen, Helium	Nitrogen, Oxygen