Jupiter Orbit Semi-Major Axis
| Value | 7.7857e11 m |
| Status | Conventional / typical value |
| Source | NASA NSSDC Planetary Fact Sheet, Jupiter (semimajor axis) |
| Categories | Astronomicalsolar-systemplanets |
| Planck length | 4.8171235e+46 lP |
| femtometer | 7.7857000e+26 fm |
| picometer | 7.7857000e+23 pm |
| bohr radius | 1.4712841e+22 a0 |
| angstrom | 7.7857000e+21 Å |
| nanometer | 7.7857000e+20 nm |
| micrometer | 7.7857000e+17 μm |
| thou | 3.0652362e+16 thou |
| point | 2.2069701e+15 pt |
| millimeter | 778,570,000,000,000 mm |
| pica | 183,914,170,000,000 pc |
| centimeter | 77,857,000,000,000 cm |
| inch | 30,652,362,000,000 in |
| decimeter | 7,785,700,000,000 dm |
| hand | 7,663,090,600,000 hh |
| link | 3,870,247,800,000 li |
| foot | 2,554,363,500,000 ft |
| US survey foot | 2,554,358,400,000 ftUS |
| yard | 851,454,510,000 yd |
| meter | 778,570,000,000 m |
| fathom | 425,727,250,000 ftm |
| rod | 154,809,910,000 rd |
| chain | 38,702,478,000 ch |
| cable length | 4,203,941,700 cb |
| furlong | 3,870,247,800 fur |
| kilometer | 778,570,000 km |
| mile | 483,780,970 mi |
| nautical mile | 420,394,170 nmi |
| league | 161,260,320 lea |
| megameter | 778,570 Mm |
| Earth radius | 122,205.31 REarth |
| light-second | 2,597.03 ls |
| lunar distance | 2,025.4215 LD |
| solar radius | 1,119.1174 Rsun |
| light-minute | 43.283833 lmin |
| astronomical unit | 5.204419 AU |
| light-year | 0.000082294914 ly |
| parsec | 0.000025231735 pc |
| kiloparsec | 2.5231735e-08 kpc |
| megaparsec | 2.5231735e-11 Mpc |
| gigaparsec | 2.5231735e-14 Gpc |
Learning zone
Jupiter's distance sets the solar system's floor plan. Just inside it, at the 5.2-au frost line's inner edge, orbital resonances with the giant planet stir the asteroid belt: the Kirkwood gaps are swept clean at the 3:1 and 2:1 period ratios, and the belt's total mass — less than the Moon's — is what Jupiter's perturbations left unaccreted. Sharing the orbit itself ride the Trojan asteroids, thousands of bodies trapped 60° ahead of and behind the planet at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points, targets of NASA's Lucy mission.
The 5.2-au distance also made Jupiter the proving ground of Ole Rømer's great discovery: eclipse timings of the moon Io arrive up to 16 minutes late as Earth moves from the near to the far side of its orbit, the lag from which the speed of light was first measured in 1676.