Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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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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    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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