Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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