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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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