Mass of Jupiter

MJ=1.8982×1027 kgM_{\mathrm{J}} = 1.8982 \times 10^{27}\ \text{kg}
Value1.8982e27 kg
StatusMeasured: ± 4.20e+22 kg (0.000022 relative)
SourceNASA planetary fact sheet; GM from JPL DE440 divided by CODATA 2022 G
CategoriesAstronomicalPlanets
Mass of Jupiter in every mass unit
unified atomic mass unit (dalton)1.1431228e+54 u
picogram1.8982000e+42 pg
nanogram1.8982000e+39 ng
microgram1.8982000e+36 μg
milligram1.8982000e+33 mg
centigram1.8982000e+32 cg
grain2.9293703e+31 gr
metric carat9.4910000e+30 ct
gram1.8982000e+30 g
pennyweight1.2205709e+30 dwt
dram1.0713126e+30 dr
ounce6.6957035e+28 oz
troy ounce6.1028547e+28 oz t
troy pound5.0857123e+27 lb t
pound4.1848147e+27 lb
kilogram1.8982000e+27 kg
stone2.9891533e+26 st
slug1.3006802e+26 slug
US hundredweight4.1848147e+25 cwt
UK long hundredweight3.7364417e+25 cwt (UK)
quintal1.8982000e+25 q
US short ton2.0924073e+24 ton
metric tonne1.8982000e+24 t
UK long ton1.8682208e+24 long ton
kilotonne1.8982000e+21 kt
megatonne1.8982000e+18 Mt
gigatonne1.8982000e+15 Gt
Earth mass317.83932 Mearth
solar mass0.00095463209 Msun

Learning zone

Jupiter is massive enough that the Sun–Jupiter barycentre lies just outside the Sun's surface, so the Sun visibly wobbles — a 12-year, 12 m/s radial-velocity signal that a distant observer could detect, and precisely the method that found 51 Pegasi b in 1995 and opened the exoplanet era. Masses of giant exoplanets are therefore quoted in Jupiter masses as naturally as stellar masses are in solar masses.

It is also as large as a cold body of hydrogen can get: add mass and electron degeneracy pressure makes the planet shrink rather than grow, until around 13 Jupiter masses deuterium fusion begins and the object becomes a brown dwarf. Jupiter's gravity dominates the outer solar system's dynamics, sculpting the asteroid belt's Kirkwood gaps and deflecting or capturing comets — Shoemaker–Levy 9 broke up and struck it in 1994 while the world watched.