Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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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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    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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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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