Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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