Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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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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