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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    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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    Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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