Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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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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    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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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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