Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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