distance of jupiter
The planets both travel in their elliptical orbits getting closer then farther apart. When Earth and Jupiter are at their closest to each other they are 628,743,036 km apart. At their most distant from each other they are 928,081,020 km apart. In astronomical units the distance varies from 4.2 AU to 6.2 AU. All of the planets follow an elliptical orbit. When the planet is closest to the Sun it is called perihelion.