Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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