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JUPITER
Jupiter weighs three times more than all the other planets combined. Jupiter is the fifth planet away from the Sun. Its great mass causes it to act like an enormous cosmic vacuum cleaner. The planet Jupiter (Jove) was named after the King of the Gods and the ruler of Olympus. It is the fourth brightest object seen from Earth and has been known since the prehistoric times. Its gravitational influence attracted much of the debris in the early solar system.