Space Facts

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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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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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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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