The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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