Definition of Jupiter

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Jupiter

The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be the son of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.

One of the planets, being the brightest except Venus, and the largest of them all, its mean diameter being about 85,000 miles. It revolves about the sun in 4,332.6 days, at a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity.

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Jupiter Quotations

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
Ovid

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.
Fred Thompson

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
Lactantius

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
Imogen Cunningham

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.
Mark Goddard

I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket.
Laura Dern

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.
William Hooper

Jupiter Translations

Jupiter in Dutch is Jupiter

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