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    Bringing happiness to life, Jupiter is the planet of enthusiasm, good
fortune, big-heartedness, and success. Expressed in its positive form,
Jupiter brings a zest for life and new experiences, good health,
prominence, wealth, generosity, honesty, and plain old good luck.
    If Jupiter is afflicted (at odds with another planet in your horoscope),
Jupiter's influence results in laziness, boastfulness, extravagance, and
blind and misdirected optimism.

    Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is the fifth planet
from the Sun. Essentially a giant ball of hydrogen and helium gas, Jupiter
has 1400 times the volume of Earth and 318 times the mass. Jupiter is
roughly 5 times further from the Sun than earth and takes 11.9 years to
make a complete orbit.
    Jupiter's most famous feature is the Great Red Spot, which is an
anticyclonic storm which has raged in the atmosphere for centuries. The
planet has at least 16 moons: the four largest were discovered in 1610
by Galileo. They are named after the mythological paramours of Jupiter:
Europa, Io, Ganymede, and Callisto. Callisto is almost as large as
Mercury, and Ganymede is even larger than Mercury. Europa's extremely
smooth surface is covered by a layer of water ice, and liquid water may
lie beneath the ice. Io is hellish in comparison with intense volcanic
activity and sulfur dioxide spewing from vents on the surface.

    Jupiter is named after the Roman mythological ruler of the gods (also
known as Jove). The son of Saturn, Jupiter overthrew his father.
Eventually identifying Jupiter with the Greek god Zeus, Roman literature
assigned Zeus's attributes to Jupiter. But most Romans worshipped
Jupiter in the old tradition as Jupiter, along with the goddesses
Minerva and Juno, formed the primary religious triad of the Roman
state.