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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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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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 temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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