The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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