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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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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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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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