Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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