the orbit of a planet is the time and path it takes to go around the sun. in the amount of time it takes for jupiter to orbit the sun one time, the earth orbits the sun 11.86 times. one year on jupiter is equal to 11.86 years on earth. the average distance between jupiter and the sun is 778 million kilometres. this is five times the distance between earth and the sun. jupiter is not tilted on its axis as much as earth or mars. this causes it to have no seasons, for example summer or winter. jupiter rotates, or spins around very quickly. this causes the planet to bulge in the middle. jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in the solar system. it completes one rotation or spin in 10 hours. because of the bulge, the length of the equator of jupiter is much longer than the length from pole to pole.