Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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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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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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    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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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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