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Space Facts
Featuring Interesting Space Facts, Funny Space Facts, and more Space Fun Facts.
There are 36 Space Facts!
- 151. 41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.View Comments (15) Post a CommentFurther Details:Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
Type: Space Fact - 152. A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
- 83. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
- 74. A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
- 85. A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
- 76. All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
- 47. Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
- 28. Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
- 169. Astronauts cannot burp in space.
- 610. Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
- 411. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
- 412. In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
- 213. It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
- 414. Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
- 315. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
- 716. More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
- 1617. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
- 218. Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
- 119. Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
- 220. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
- 121. The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
- 222. The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
- 423. The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
- 224. The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
- 625. The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
- 526. The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
- 227. The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
- 328. The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
- 1429. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
- 430. The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
- 231. The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
- 232. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
- 033. There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
- 1634. There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
- 235. Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
- 1136. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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