Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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