Jupiter (disambiguation)

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun.

Jupiter or Jupiters may also refer to:

Mythology

• Jupiter (mythology), supreme Roman deity

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 (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, 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

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