Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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