AST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ammonium Hydrosulfide
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Jupiter is the prototype of the jovian planets. You can fit approx 1,000 earths inside of jupiter. Jupiter is so massive that if you combined everything in our solar system, that combined mass would not have as much mass. Jupiter and saturn are the gems of the solar system: great for viewing with relatively low powered telescopes, saturn has great rings. Saturn is only 95 times bigger than the earth (mass wise) Jupiter has a very slight tilt (3 degrees) while saturn has a more earth-like tilt (27 degrees) Each planet is mostly gaseous: density, jupiter : 1326 kg/m2, saturn: 687 kg/m2. The clouds of these planets are probably in 3 layers. The highest layer is mostly ammonia clouds. The middle layer is made of ammonium hydrosulfide. And the lowest layer is probably water clouds. The oblateness of jupiter and saturn tells that they have a rocky core.
