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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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