• Question: what is the biggest planet?

    Asked by izzy122 to Adam, Geoff, Rob, Sheila, Suzie on 15 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by michaelwhu, iijames.
    • Photo: Robert Simpson

      Robert Simpson answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      The biggest planet in our Solar System is Jupiter – so big that you could squeeze all the other planets inside it. There are exoplanets (planets around other stars) that are much bigger than Jupiter though, so it’s all relative.

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      Adam Tuff answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      The biggest planet in our solar system is Jupiter, but of course we are finding new planets all the time in other solar systems! I think the current largest planet we have found is WASP-17 which is about twice the size of Jupiter!

    • Photo: Sheila Kanani

      Sheila Kanani answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Jupiter 😀

    • Photo: Suzie Sheehy

      Suzie Sheehy answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system, but outside the solar system I think there are bigger ones… prob. a better question for one of the other scis though!

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