Space Facts

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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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    1054 AD Supernova
    1054 AD Supernova
    In the year 1054 AD, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for 23 days straight, even during the day.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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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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    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 earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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