Jupiter (disambiguation)
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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun.
Jupiter or Jupiters may also refer to:
Mythology
- Jupiter (mythology), chief deity of Roman state religion
Astronomy
- Jupiter, as a primary or prefix name designator before a Roman numeral for one of the many discovered Moons of Jupiter (for example: Jupiter I, Jupiter II, Jupiter III, etc.)
Places
United States
- Jupiter, California, United States, an unincorporated community
- Jupiter, Florida, United States, a town
- Jupiter Island, a barrier island in Florida, United States
- Jupiter, North Carolina, United States, an unincorporated community
- Jupiter Township, Kittson County, Minnesota, United States
Elsewhere
- Jupiter, Romania, a summer resort on the Black Sea
- Jupiter Glacier, Alexander Island, Antarctica
- Jupiter Formation, a geologic formation in Quebec, Canada
- Jupiter Reef, a supposed, likely phantom, reef in the South Pacific Ocean
In the military
- HMS Jupiter, six ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Jupiter, two ships of the United States Navy
- French ship Jupiter (1789), a French Navy ship of the line
- French ship Jupiter (1831), a French Navy ship of the line
- Jupiter class minelayer, a four-ship class of Spanish mine layers which saw action in the Spanish Civil War
- Operation Jupiter, a planned Soviet World War II offensive that was to follow the 1942 Operation Mars
- Operation Jupiter (1944), a 1944 British Army Second World War offensive, part of the Battle of Normandy
- Bristol Jupiter Fighter, an unsuccessful British biplane introduced in 1924
- PGM-19 Jupiter, a U.S. Air Force medium-range ballistic missile, produced from 1956 to 1961
- Jupiter Aerobatic Team, the Indonesian Air Force aerobatic display team
Transportation
- MV Jupiter, a Greek-registered cruise ship that sank in 1988
- MS Jupiter, a cruiseferry owned and operated by Vietnamese Jupiter Cruises
- MS Bulk Jupiter, a Bahamas-registered Norwegian-operated cargo ship that sank in 2015
- Jupiter (tugboat), a tugboat preserved in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jupiter (locomotive), a steam locomotive built in 1868, best known for its role in the "Golden Spike" ceremony
- Jowett Jupiter, a sports car
- Moynet Jupiter, an unsuccessful executive airplane introduced in 1963
- Bristol Jupiter, a British radial aeroplane engine developed during the First World War
Science and technology
- Jupiter-C, a sounding rocket
- Juno I, a Jupiter-C derivative used to launch the first U.S. Earth satellite
- Jupiter-A, a technology forerunner for the PGM-19 Jupiter
- Jupiter (rocket family), a proposed family of space shuttle-derived launch vehicles
- Jupiter (spacecraft), a proposed space tug being developed by Lockheed Martin
- Windows Runtime XAML Framework, code name "Jupiter"
- Jupiter JVM, the Java virtual machine
- Jupiter, the first stable version of the elementary OS Linux distribution
- Jupiter project, a DEC project for a PDP-10 replacement
- JUPITER trial, a clinical trial investigating rosuvastatin
Music
Instruments
- Jupiter Stradivarius, a violin made by Stradivarius
- Jupiter, ex-Goding Stradivarius, a violin made by Stradivarius
- Roland Jupiter (disambiguation), a series of analog music synthesizers
Groups
- Jupiter (band), a Japanese power metal band
- Jupiters, a Pakistani band
Works
- "Jupiter" or Symphony No. 41, a symphony by Mozart
- "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity", the fourth movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets
- "Jupiter" (hymn) or "I Vow to Thee, My Country", a British patriotic song and Anglican hymn
- Jupiter (Atheist album)
- Jupiter (Cave In album)
- Jupiter (Bump of Chicken album)
- "Jupiter" (Swallow the Moon), a song by Jewel from Spirit
- "Jupiter" (Earth, Wind & Fire song)
- "Jupiter" (Buck-Tick song)
- Jupiter, disc 1 of Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Jupiter", a song by 311 from Transistor
- "Jupiter", a song by Ayaka Hirahara from Odyssey
- "Jupiter", a song by Minako Honda from Ave Maria
- "Jupiter", a song by The Presidents of the United States of America from Freaked Out and Small
- "Jupiter", a track on the album Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
Science fiction
- "Jupiter Five", a 1953 science fiction story by Arthur C. Clarke
- Jupiter 2, spaceship in the television series Lost in Space
- Jupiter Award (science fiction award), an award for science fiction writing presented infrequently from 1974 to 1978
- Jupiter (novel), a 2000 novel by Ben Bova
- Jupiter (magazine), a science fiction magazine edited by Ian Redman
Fictional characters
- Sailor Jupiter or Makoto Kino, a character in Sailor Moon
- Commander Jupiter, a character in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum
- Johnny Jupiter, the title characters of two different early American television programs
- Jupiter Jones, a character from the Three Investigators juvenile detective book series
Businesses
- Jupiter Fund Management, a British fund management company
- Jupiter Airlines, based in the United Arab Emirates
- Jupiter (company), a Japanese game and hardware development studio
- Jupiter Entertainment, an American television production company
- Jupiter Band Instruments, a brand of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments
- Jupiters Hotel and Casino, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- Jupiter Hotel (Portland, Oregon)
- Jupiters Limited, an Australian gambling company that merged with Tabcorp Holdings
- Jupiter Discount Stores, a former brand designation of Kmart for old S.S. Kresge stores
People
- Jupiter Hammon (1711-before 1806), poet and first African-American writer to be published in the present-day United States
- Jupiter Yves Ngangue (born 1980), Cameroonian former footballer
- Jupiter Ghosh (born 1989), Bangladeshi cricketer
Other uses
- CE Júpiter, a Spanish football club based in Barcelona
- Jupiter (ice hockey team), a defunct team that was based in Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Jupiter (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster in Beppu, Ōita, Japan
- Jupiter (apple), an apple cultivar
- Jupiter grape, interspecific seedless Muscat grape developed at the University of Arkansas
- Jupiter Community High School, Jupiter, Florida
- Jupiter Christian School, Jupiter, Florida
- Gold, silver and bronze Jupiter, awards for the L'International des Feux Loto-Québec fireworks festival
See also
- Jupiter Dolichenus, a Roman god created from the synchronisation of Jupiter and a Baal cult of Commagene in Asia Minor
- Jupiter Amphitheatre, a valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Jupiter field, a natural gas and oil field in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil
- GSP Jupiter, a drilling rig in the Black Sea
- Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway in Florida
- Jupiter Ace, an early home computer sold in Britain
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