Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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    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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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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