Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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There's a mysterious dwarf planet between Mars and Jupiter called 'Ceres' which has never been visited by spacecraft or photographed in detail, however, Earth-bound telescopes reveal a large bright shining spot on the surface of this planet, the origin and nature of which are unknown.
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Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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