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Jool

Description

By sheer size, Jool stands the tallest among the local planets, and it ties with Kerbin for the title of richest celestial body (by composition). Its primary color is inexplicably the same as the skin of a kerbal, and the variety among its moons is exceedingly wide and unparalleled to date, making Jool the chief source of inspiration to Kerbal-kind for interplanetary and eventually, interstellar colonization.

Trivia

Jool is depicted as a Jupiter analog, but its mass is only 80 times that of Kerbin, making it actually smaller than Saturn in comparison.

RR

Rational Resources Classification:

Ocean Surface Atmosphere Exosphere
None None Gas (Jovian)* None

*Gas atmosphere template contains an exosphere template.

Specs

From the PDF included in the download:

Bulk Params Orbital and Rotational Params
Classification Planet, gas giant Semi-major Axis 189,765,000 km
Radius 14,000 km sea level Perihelion 180,276,750 km
Mass 2.99515×1025 kg Aphelion 199,253,250 km
Gravitational Parameter 1.99899×1015 m3/s2 Orbit eccentricity 0.05
Mean density 2,610 kg/m3 Orbit inclination 1.304°
Surface gravity 1.04 g ASL Longitude of ascending node 52°
Escape velocity 16,899 m/s Argument of periapsis 30°
Bond Albedo 0.35 Sidereal orbit period 11.372 years
Solar irradiance 53.2 W/m2 Synodic period 400.19 days
Black-body temperature 111 K Mean orbital velocity 6,649 m/s
Natural satellites Laythe Sidereal rotation period 5.5 hours
Vall Solar day 5.5006 hours
Tylo Synchronous orbit altitude 13,077 km
Bop Sphere of influence 6,745,648 km
Pol
Atmosphere
Overall height 700 km
Pressure 100 atm sea level, 1 atm @ 161 km
Mean temperature 600 K sea level, 145 K @ 161 km
Mean molecular weight 2.22 g/mol
Composition 90% H2, 10% He
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