The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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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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There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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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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The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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