The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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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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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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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