Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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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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    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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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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