Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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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 Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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