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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Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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