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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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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