The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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