Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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Jupiter has radio storms so strong that they can be picked up and heard by an AM radio.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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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 earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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