Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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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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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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