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Jupiter has the shortest day of any planet
Jupiter spins once in about 9.9 hours, the shortest day in the solar system.
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It is also the biggest planet. Jupiter took most of the mass left over after the Sun formed and holds more than twice the material of all the other bodies in the solar system combined.
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