Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    The last time that the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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    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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