This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
The largest planet of the solar system. It is about 88,000 miles diameter, eleven times that of the earth, and rotates in less than 10 hours, its surface at the equator moving 28 times as fast as the earth's surface. Its distance from the sun is 485,000,000 miles.
 
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