The Qatar Calendar House announced that the giant planet of the solar system, Jupiter, will reach the closest point in its orbit around the sun (perihelion) on the evening of Friday, the 27th of the month of Jumada II 1444 AH, corresponding to 20 January 2023.
Jupiter will be at a distance of approximately 740 million km from the centre of the sun, a difference of 76 million km from what it was on Thursday, 16 February 2017, noting that Jupiter was then at a distance of approximately 816 million km from the centre of the sun, which is the farthest point Jupiter reaches. from the sun (apogee point).
Dr Bashir Marzouk, an astronomer at the Qatar Calendar House, stated that this phenomenon is one of the important astronomical phenomena because Jupiter reaches the closest point in its orbit around the sun once every 11.9 years (which is the period during which Jupiter completes a complete revolution around the sun) when Jupiter reached the nearest point. From the sun on 17 March 2011, it will reach it again on 5 December 2034.
Dr Marzouq added, "Jupiter, like other planets in our solar system, revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit (ellipse), and the sun is in one of the two foci of this orbit, and therefore Jupiter is sometimes at a point close to the sun called (perihelion), and it is Sometimes at a point far from the sun called (apogee point).
Residents of Qatar will be able to observe Jupiter with the naked eye next Friday evening, towards the southern horizon of the sky of Qatar, from after sunset until before Jupiter sets, knowing that the Friday sun will set at 5:09 pm, while Jupiter will set at 9:53 pm Doha local time.
It is worth noting that Jupiter is the fastest planet in the solar system to rotate around its axis, which means that the length of the day on the surface of Jupiter is the shortest day for the other planets, as the length of the day on the surface of Jupiter is approximately ten hours, which is the period that Jupiter needs to complete a full cycle. Around its axis, 79 moons revolve around Jupiter, the most famous of which is the Galileo satellite group (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto), which is the largest planet in the solar system, with a diameter 11 times the diameter of Earth.
Source & cover image credit: QNA
Follow us on our social media channels:
@ILQlive
@ILQlive
@ILoveQtr
ILoveQatar
You have successfully registered your account!
Please confirm your e-mail address by clicking on the URL sent to you.The e-mail usually arrives in 5-10 minutes.
How ajeeb was that!? Thanks for contributing to our community! Your post will appear after we take a quick look!
