Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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