Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full 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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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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