There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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