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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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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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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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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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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