Space Facts

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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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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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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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    The earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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