Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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