Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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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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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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