Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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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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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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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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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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