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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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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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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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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