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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The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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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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All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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