Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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    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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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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