Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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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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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons
    Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars, is the tallest volcano in the Solar System at a height of 14 miles. It is nearly 3 times the height of Mount Everest.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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